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- Continental Army
- the American army during the American Revolution
- Treaty of Paris
- Treaty that officially ended the war
- as for me give me liberty of give me death
- Patrick Henery
- siege
- the surrounding of a place by an army in order to capture it.
- Yankey Doodle
- song that colonists sang to mock the Brits
- Battle of Fort Ticonderoga
- Eathan Allen and Benedict Arnold took a large amount of the Brits weapons, Ethan Allen lead the Green Mountain Boys here and the British commander surrendered Ticonderoga., Ethan Allen lead the Green Mountain Boys here and the British commander surrendered Ticonderoga.
- Trenton
- Crossing of the Delawere
- The Swamp Fox
- Merrion was so good at guerilla warfare so the called him "The Swamp Fox"
- Second Continental Congress
- The meeting of colonial delegates that approved the Declaration of Independence
- I have not yot begun to fight
- John Paul Jones
- Olive Branch Petition
- An offer of peace sent by the Second Continental Congress to King George lll
- Common Sense
- Thomas Paine
- Battle at New York
- Continental Army retreated to Manhattan Island from Long Island. Patriots suffered 1,000 casualties. British lost less than 400. British drove Patriots from Manhattan Island
- Dorchester Heights
- where the british retreated after seeing all the Americans up on the hills with cannons
- Vincennes
- a British town that George Rogers Clark captured
- guerrilla warfare
- hit-and-run raids that distracted the French in Spain
- Patriots
- American Soldiers
- mercenaries
- a person hired to fight for another country than their own
- Serapis
- The ship that George Rodgers Clark Captured
- Redcoats
- british soldiers during the american revolution
- Lexington
- the first battle of the American Revolution (April 19, 1775)
- Boston Tea Party
- Colonists hurled a cargo of British tea into the harbor to protest a tax on tea
- France
- American Allies
- Declaration of Independence
- This document was adopted byt the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. It established the 13 colonies as independent states, free from rule by Great Britain. Thomas Jefferson wrote the majority of this document.
- Battle at Montreal
- September 1775; Richard Montgomery won this battle against British in Canada
- Valley Forge
- General Von Steuben trained all of Washingtons Troops
- Long rifel
- continental army weapon
- Lord Dummores Proclamation
- The British told all the slaves that if they fought with the British they would be set free
- First Continental Congress
- Delagates from all colonies except georgia met to discuss problems with britain and to promote independence
- Minutemen
- Civilian soldiers
- Saratoga
- John Bergoyne surrendered to General Gates in north New York
- Bunker Hill
- British won but lost twice as many men
- Battle of Brandywine Creek
- September 11, 1777; Howe vs. Washington; Patriots lost because of miscommunication; Howe allowed colonists to retreat
- Britian
- The americans were fighting them
- Loyalists
- loyal to the king of England