Question | Answer |
George Washington | Became leader of the continental army |
John Paul Jones | Won the battle of serapis at sea against the beitish |
Mercenary | a soldier paid to fight for a foreign country |
Battle of Saratoga | British were out numbered and sourrendered. |
Marquis de Lafayette | teenage frenchman who volunteered to seve in Washington's army. |
Lord Cornwallis | British general in Camden, South Carolina |
Benedict Arnold | An American traitor who was shot in the leg at the battle of saratoga |
Horacio Gates | A general that only got to be in one battle because of his many mistakes. |
William Howe | comander of british army in north america. |
Treaty of Paris | Was formed at the end of the war. After the battle of Yorktown. |
Shot heard round the world | no one knows who fired first at Lexington and Concord |
Lexington and Concord | The fordt battle, fought from April 18 to April 19 of 1775 |
RedCoats | A name the Patriots gave to the british soldiers |
Second Continental Congress | Put together the Continental Army |
Boston | Home of a lot of Patriots |
Minutemen | Or militia men, men that were mainly farmers or storeworkers, that voluntered to fight in the war |
Patriots | Those who were on the side of the Americans |
Loyalists | those who were on the side of the British |
John Hancock | The person who signed their name the largest ont the Declaration of Independence |
Paul Revere | Rode through town alerting people that the soldiers were coming |
Guerilla Warfare | Sneak Attack style warfare |
Militia | another name for minutemen |
Battle of Trenton | Happened on Christmas of 1776 and was an ambush. In new jersey |
Battle of Princeton | Fought in New Jersey January 3 1777 |
Saratoga turning point | Benedict Arnold became a traitor |
How did lafayette help> | made our army better |
John Paul Jones Contribution | helped beat the serapis |