Famous People in the Revolutinary War
Across
- 2. silversmith who rode to alert the minutemen with William Dawes
- 3. indian who led tribes into battle against British forts in Ohio are during the French and Indian war
- 6. aka Molly Pitcher, brought water to the patriot soldiers
- 9. made the first formal motion for independence
- 10. wrote most of the Declaration of Independence
- 14. commander of the United States Army during the Revolution
Down
- 1. aka Swamp Fox, hid in swamps to surprise bands of British soliders
- 3. black man killed in Boston Massacre
- 4. Virginia politician who said "as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
- 5. planned to give West Point to British, but was found out and called a traitor
- 7. surrendered the British Army at Yorktown
- 8. British leader who attacked patriots at Lexington and Concord
- 10. patriot who published "common sense"
- 11. led Green Moutain Boys to capture Fort Ticonderoga
- 12. American naval commander who beat the "serapis"
- 13. signed the Declaration the first and biggest
- 15. schoolteacher hung as a spy