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Who Am I?
Battles and Disputes
Potpourri
100

I'm the two commanders who joined together to capture Ft. Ticonderoga.

Who were Arnold and Allen?

100

We wanted independence from Great Britain.

Who were the Patriots?

100

I'm the leader of the Green Mountain Boys.

Who is Ethan Allan?

100

George Washington's troops surprised the Hessians here.

What is Trenton?

100

The Declaration of Independence was approved on this date.

What was July 4, 1776?

200

I'm the Patriot schoolteacher who gave his life in an attempt to provide Washington with information about British activity in New York.

Who was Nathan Hale?

200

We were the American troops.

What was the Continental army?

200

I'm the British officer who lost at Saratoga.

Who is John Burgoyne? 

200

We won the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Who were the British?

200

This meeting convened in Philadelphia in 1775 to send the Olive Branch Petition to the king.

What is the Second Continental Congress?

300

I'm the British officer who surrendered at Yorktown.

Who was Cornwallis? 

300

We were soldiers for hire.

Who were mercenaries?

300

I wrote "Common Sense."

Who was Thomas Paine?

300

This Patriot victory won official French support for the Patriot cause.

What was Saratoga?

300

I'm one of three men who helped negotiate the treaty to end the revolution.

Who were Jay, Adams, and/or Franklin?

400

I trained the colonial army when they were stuck at Valley Forge for the winter. 

Who was Baron von Steuben?

400

Another name for us was Loyalists.

Who were the Tories?

400

I am the Patriot army quartermaster who replaced General Gates as the leader in the South.

Who is Nathanael Greene?

400

The attempt by the Patriots to capture this Canadian fort resulted in failure.

What is Quebec?

400

He was the French volunteer who fought with the Americans at Yorktown.

Who was the Marquis de Lafayette? 

500

I assisted General Gage in the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Who was William Howe?

500

This means armed merchant ships.

What is privateers?

500

I gained fame by defeated the British Serapis.

Who was John Paul Jones?

500

Southern frontiersmen, angered by British demands to lay down their arms, fought back and won this battle.

What is King's Mountain? 

500

1783

What is the year the American Revolution officially ended?