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| Wealthy Boston merchant who was instrumental in establishing the committees of correspondence and served as president of the Continental Congress |
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| Woman who disguised herself as a man to fight for the Patriot cause |
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| French aristocrat who served with the American forces and became like a son to George Washington |
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| Author of Common Sense, a small volume that served to light the fire of the American Revolution |
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| One of her husband's most trusted advisors and the writer of hundreds of letters to him while he served in the Continental Congress and then as an American ambassador abroad |
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| Boston silversmith who did a popular engraving of the Boston Massacre and another of three horsemen who delivered the news that the British were coming to Lexington and Concord |
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| Pennsylvania newspaper editor and inventor who served on the committee that wrote the Declaration of Independence and served as a diplomat in France |
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| Unanimously selected by the Continental Congress to serve as commander of the Continental army |
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| Leader of the Vermont Green Mountain Boys at Fort Ticonderoga |
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| Boston agitator and leader of the Sons of Liberty |
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| Wife who traveled to stay with her husband while the Continental forces were in winter quarters at Cambridge, Morristown, and Valley Forge |
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| Most famous American naval hero of the Revolution |
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| Author of the first draft of the Declaration of Independence |
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| General responsible for bringing the cannon from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston |
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| Woman who carried water in a pitcher to her husband and his fellow artillery gunners at Monmouth |
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| "George Washington of the West" who led the American expedition to take the Ohio River valley from the British and their Indian allies |
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| Patriot lawyer who defended the British soldiers arrested for murdering Americans in the Boston Massacre |
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| South Carolina guerilla leader known as the Swamp Fox |
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| American commander in the South who was successful in chasing Cornwallis out of the Carolinas |
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| Prussian drillmaster who worked with troops at Valley Forge |
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| Virginia orator who fave a famous speech against the Stamp Act in the House of Burgesses |
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