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Revolutionary War!
| 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 |