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- Haym Salomon
- American financier and Revolutionary patriot who helped fund the army during the American Revolution (1740?-1785)
- Mercy Otis Warren
- She was known for her polished, nonpolitical poetry. Sher ridiculed Massachusetts Tories.
- Hessians
- German Soldiers sent to fight the Americans
- serfs
- A person who lived on and farmed a lords land in feudal times
- Marquis de Lafayette
- French soldier who served under George Washington in the American Revolution (1757-1834)
- Martha Washington
- Most famous of all women for joining her husband in army camps, cooking, cleaning, nursing, washing, sewing/mending
- hardtack
- Very hard unsalted biscuit or bread.
- General Burgoyne
- Surrendered to america at Saratoga, Wanted three British armies to march on Albany, New York, from different directions. They would crush American forces there once they controlled the Hudson River, the British could stop the flow of soldiers and supplies from New England to Washington's army.
- mutiny
- Open rebellion against constituted authority (especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers)
- James Forten
- James Forten became wealthy as a sailmaker and influential and famous as a leader of free blacks.
- mercenaries
- A soldier who is payed to fight for another country or group (dont have enough soldiers so they can jsut go pay for others but it can be bad cause they can be bought off and they are not as willing to fight and you have to pay for them
- Abigail Adams
- John Adam's wife, she appealed to her husband to protect the rights of women
- Lord Dunmore
- Offered freedom to slaves if they fought for the British
- guerrilla
- A member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment
- Sir William Howe
- British commander, mistakes cost Britain War, he abandoned his battle plan, allowed Washington to regroup, didn't attack at Valley Forge, some believed that he sympathized with colonists and didn't want to win the war
- Von Steuben
- Helped train washingtons continental troopsto march and drill
- quartermaster
- An army officer who provides clothing and subsistence for troops
- regulars
- (def.) Trained professional soldiers, as distinct from militia or conscripts (sig.) The barely-trained colonists defeated the British regulars at Great Bridge, showing they could defeat the British.
- General Gates
- He helped defeat the British at Saratoga and was featured in a newspaper article on the British surrendering Saratoga.
- privateer
- A privately owned warship commissioned to prey on the commercial shipping or warships of an enemy nation
- blockade
- A war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy
- general burgoyne
- Wanted three British armies to march on Albany, New York, from different directions. They would crush American forces there once they controlled the Hudson River, the British could stop the flow of soldiers and supplies from New England to Washington's army.