Historical Terms for My Brother Sam is Dead
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- Derogatory term for British soldiers
- Lobsterbacks
- The war between the British and the colonists
- Revolutionary War
- Those who supported the British cause in the Revolution
- Tories
- American Revolutionary War general responsible for the capture of the British at Fort Ticonderoga;later found to be a traitor
- Benedict Arnold
- One of the two legislative congresses orgnized by the colonists during and after the Revolutionary War
- Continental Congress
- Patriotic party that supported the Revolution
- Whigs
- Colonials loyal to the King of England
- Loyalists
- On April 19, 1775, the British sent troops from Boston to investigate the allegation that the colonists were stockpiling weapons in Massachusetts; considered the beginnning of the Revolutionary War
- Battles of Lexington and Concord
- Soldiers fighting for the colonial cause
- Rebels
- American militia men ready for instant military service
- Minutemen