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  • Ethan Allen

    Ethan Allen

    Ethan Allen led a group of men called the "Green Mountain Boys."
  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill

    Colonel William Prescott led 1200 minute men up Bunker Hill. General William Howe was the British General. "Don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes." -William Howe
  • Americans attack Quebec

    Americans attack Quebec

    The Americans failed in their attempt to take the ciry.
  • Thomas Paine

    Thomas Paine

    He wrote "common sense." He supported the colonists.
  • Richard Henry Lee

    Richard Henry Lee

    He wanted the colonists to gain independence, he said "These United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States."
  • Patriots

    Patriots

    North Carolina patriots defeat a loyalist army.
  • Molly Pitcher

    Molly Pitcher

    Molly took her husbands place in the war after he was injured.
  • Delegates

    Delegates

    The delegates accepted Jerfferson's Declaration of Independce making only a few minor adjustments.
  • John Hancock

    John Hancock

    He was one of the men who signed the declaration of independence.
  • Benedict Arnold

    Benedict Arnold

    He led the 2nd army North through Maine.
  • African Americans in war

    African Americans in war

    More than half a million African Americans lived in the colonies and fought in the war.
  • Washingtons Troops

    Washingtons Troops

    Washington described his troops as sick dirty and so clad as to be unfit for service.
  • Battle of Trenton

    Battle of Trenton

  • Marquis De Lafayette

    Marquis De Lafayette

    He brought trained soldiers to help the patriot cause.
  • Fredich Von Stueban

    Fredich Von Stueban

    Trained some of the continental troops.
  • Continental Army

    The Continental Army suffered servere hardship at Valley Forge Pennsylvania.
  • George Roger Clark

    George Roger Clark

    He led virginia frontier fighters in Ohio Valley against British troops.
  • Nathaneal Greene and Daniel Morgan

    Nathaneal Greene and Daniel Morgan

    He was the general in the victory of King Mountain.
  • Comte De Rochambeau

    Comte De Rochambeau

    Combined army rushed to join Lafayette.