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history chapter 7
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History
8th Grade
12/03/2008

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George Washington
Definition
commander of the continental army
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Mercenary
Definition
profesional soldier hired to fight for a foreign contry
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Strategy
Definition
overall plan of action
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rendezvous
Definition
meeting
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battle of saratoga
Definition
colonial army defeated,lead to burgoyne surrender
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ally
Definition
a counrty that agrees to help another country achieve a common goal.
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Marquis de Lafayette
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19-year old french nobleman who volunteered in washingtons army
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bayonets
Definition
long steal knives attached to the ends of guns
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desert
Definition
leave military duty without intending to return
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privateer
Definition
privatly owned ship that a wartime government gives permission to attack an enemys merchant ships
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James Forten
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14-year old son of african-american sail maker
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John Paul Jones
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won the most famous sea battle
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Lord Cornwallis
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British general(surrendered at yorktown)
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Guerrillas
Definition
small bands of fighters who weaken the enemy with surprise attacks and hiit and run tactics
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pacifist
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opposed to war
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Battle of Yorktown
Definition
American and french troops bombarded yorktown with cannon fire
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Treaty of Paris
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document that ended the revolutionary war boundries west of the mississippi river, north of canadaspanish florida on the south, and that british return any enslaved persons(agreed to but they didn't)
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Republicanism
Definition
demanded rights as english citizens
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