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Important People
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Battles
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The commander of the Continental Army in 1775.
What is George Washington?
100
An overall plan of action.
What is a strategy?
100
The turning point of American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Saratoga.
100
The year the Declaration of Independence was signed.
What is 1776?
200
The most famous naval officer of the Revolution who won the most famous sea battle.
What is John Paul Jones?
200
A professional soldier hired to fight for a foreign country.
What is a mercenary?
200
The battle that took place late on December 25th, when the Hessians wouldn't be expecting military action.
What is the Battle of Trenton?
200
The year the Treaty of Paris was signed and the war ended.
What is 1783?
300
19-year-old French nobleman who volunteered to serve in Washington's army. Known as "the soldier's friend".
What is Marquis de Lafayette?
300
A person morally opposed to war.
What is a pacifist?
300
Battle led by John Paul Jones in 1779, that is known as the most famous sea battle.
What is the Battle of Serapis an Bonhomme Richard?
300
The year The battle of Saratoga took place.
What is 1777?
400
Surrendered at Yorktown, ending the war.
What is Lord Cornwallis?
400
A privately owned ship that a wartime government gives permission to attack an enemy's merchant ships.
What is a privateer?
400
The last major battle of the Revolutionary War, which resulted in the surrender of British forces in 1781.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
400
The year that the French entered the war on the American side.
What is 1778?
500
Surrendered to the Americans at Saratoga.
What is John Burgoyne?
500
Small bands of fighters who weaken the enemy with surprise raids and hit-and-run attacks.
What is a guerrilla?
500
American victory fought on the border of North and South Carolina in October 1780. It was one of Britain's first losses in the South.
What is the Battle of Kings Mountain?
500
Year that Winter at Valley Forge took place.
What is 1777-1778