Unit 3 People

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Across
  1. 3. British General who launched an attack south from Canada which ended in defeat of British.
  2. 7. Commander of the Continental Army
  3. 8. German officer who helped Americans train at Valley Forge
  4. 9. African-American patriot who was the first black person to be elected in an office in New Hampshire
  5. 10. A slave in Virginia, who became a spy recruited by Lafayette and was instrumental in Battle of Yorktown providing crucial information.
  6. 11. Author of "Common Sense" and "American Crisis"
  7. 13. Called father of the Navy he went to Britain to fight British and was famous for "I have not yet begun to fight!"
  8. 15. General in command of the British troops at Yorktown which he lost.
Down
  1. 1. Polymath and founding father of the U.S. who spent one year in France trying to convince the French to join their side and was sent to Paris to work the Treaty of Paris
  2. 2. Joined her husband in battle and carried water pitchers during the Revolutionary War
  3. 4. Young French nobleman who aided the Patriot cause without pay and became a general in Army.
  4. 5. Spanish governor of Louisiana who attacked the British in the Mississippi, Florida and more.
  5. 6. Virginian who drafted the Declaration of Independence
  6. 12. Leader of the Virginia House of Burgesses who was famous for arguing "Give me liberty or give me death!"
  7. 14. Early advocate for women's rights in the Revolutionary War.