Revolutionary War Crossword

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  1. 3. Governor of Spanish Louisiana who gave supplies to the Patriots and later seized British forts.
  2. 5. Major general for the patriots, until he became a traitor and tried to give West Point to the British, as well as capturing and burning Richmond.
  3. 7. A US colonist who was in favor of independence from Britain.
  4. 8. British general who surrendered his army of 8,000 at the Battle of Yorktown.
  5. 9. Patriot captain who captured the British warship Serapis.
  6. 10. The final battle of the war, in which General Cornwallis surrendered after being sieged for weeks in Yorktown.
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  1. 1. Important in South Carolina January 1781. Led by General Morgan, the patriots divided into a front and rear line. The front line retreated and he British charged after it, only to be fired on by the rear line.
  2. 2. Known as the Swamp Fox, he led a small band of militia who fought the British with guerilla tactics.
  3. 4. Treaty that ended the American Revolution. Britain agreed to recognize the US as independent, and Florida was returned to Spain.
  4. 6. A colonist of the US that was in favor of staying as a British colony.