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1st President of the United States; commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution (1732-1799)
What is George Washington
What is the Valley Forge Winter
Also known as the American Revenue Act 1764, or the American Duties Act, was a revenue-raising act passed on 5 April 1764 by the Parliament of Great Britain.
What is the Sugar Act
A individual loyal to the existing ruler or government, especially in the face of a revolt.
What is a Loyalist
A lightweight gun with a long barrel and the ability to mount a bayonet to it. The soldiers used these weapons.
What are Muskets
During the American Revolution, was the King of Great Britain and Ireland. His father's death, Frederick Lewis, the Prince of Wales in 1751, meant that, in 1760, the 22-year-old prince succeeded his grandfather, George II, to the throne.
What is King George III
These were the first US Revolutionary War military engagements. The battles were fought within the towns of Lexington , Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge on April 19 , 1775 in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay.
What is the Battles of Lexington and Concord
A part of a coalition willingness to work together to achieve and maintain shared interests against common threats over the long term.
What is the Intolerable Acts
These were German soldiers who served in the American Revolutionary War as auxiliaries to the British Army.
What is the Hessians
A wooden or stone club style with heavy, round head.
What is a War Club
French soldier who served under George Washington in the American Revolution (1757-1834)
What is Marquis de Lafayette
Last major battle of the Revolutionary War. Cornwallis and his troops were trapped in the Chesapeake Bay by the French fleet. He was sandwiched between the French navy and the American army. He surrendered October 19, 1781.
What is the Battle of Yorktown
a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. But American colonists, who had no representation in Parliament, saw the Acts as an abuse of power.
What is the Townshend Act
Circa 1770 American colonists who waged the Revolutionary War for independence from Great Britain.
What is a Patriot
A type of axis that resembles a hatchet with a straight shaft that is native to North America.
What is a Tomahawks
American General who was labeled a traitor when he assisted the British in a failed attempt to take the American fort at West Point.
What is Benedict Arnold
Shortly after Lexington and Concord, this Battle of the Civil War took place. It had been the war's first big battle. Although the British accomplished their aim, they paid dearly in lost lives, and colonists only had to withdraw because they were low on gunpowder. This fight showed the American rebels were going to put up a fierce resistance against Britain.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill
An Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act.
What is the Declaratory Act
It was the nickname given to local militiamen during the Revolutionary War, who fought against the British. Because of their supposed willingness to be ready for combat at one minute's notice they were called minutemen.
What is a Minutemen
They were heavy siege pistols with limited mobility. A mortar was mounted on a flat bed, (looks like a large wooden block) An elevating wedge raised the barrel, enabling the mortar to fire an exploded shell called a bomb.
What are canons
American general of Rhode Island, helped to turn the tide against Cornwallis and his British army, used geography of land
What is Nathanael Green
American victory over British troops in 1777 that was a turning point in the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Saratoga
Two or more British Parliament Acts requiring local American colonial governments to provide housing and food to British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act
A group of British political commentators who were at the forefront of the Radical movement associated with the British Whig faction.
What are the "Radical Whigs"
Due to their disadvantage at close quarters, rifle men were often used. It took longer for the rifles to load, so the weapon was used to aim at close range.
What are Pistols