US History Chap 6 People
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24 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Paine | Wrote Common Sense and Crisis |
| John Adams | Lawyer for sons of liberty |
| Nathan Hale | Spy for continentals |
| GW | Continental general, Victorious at Princeton and Trenton |
| Johann Rall | led the Hessians |
| William Howe | British general at Long Island at the beginning of the war |
| John Burgoyne | 3 prong failure, lost at Saratoga |
| Benedict Arnold | Traitor who tried to give away West Point |
| John Andre | Hung for West point |
| Lord Cornwallis | Losing general, surrendered at Yorktown |
| Lafayette | French Nobel, Helped GW win key battles |
| George Rogers Clark | Captured West Kaskaskia and Cahokia, Vinlcennel |
| Galvez | Spanish Governor who helped patriots |
| John Paul Jones | Victorious at North Sea. defeated British ship Serapus |
| Kosciusko | Polish engineer who helped build forts |
| Pulaski | Polish who taught patriots Calvary |
| Von Steuben | Taught marching and bayonet |
| Sybil Ludington | Lady Paul Revere |
| Deborah Sampson | Dressed up as a man to fight |
| Mary Ludwig Hays | Molly Pithcer |
| Francis Marion | Swamp Fox |
| Nat Greene | General in the south who split army into two |
| Dan Morgan | Victorious at Cowpen, three shot line |
| Admiral Degrasse | Trapped Cornwallis at Yorktown by Sea |
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