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  1. 5. – Wife of John Adams.
  2. 6. – A lawyer sent by Massachusetts.
  3. 9. – A lawyer sent from Massachusetts by his cousin Samuel.
  4. 10. - a Polish nobleman, soldier and military commander who has been called, together with his Hungarian friend Michael Kovats de Fabriczy, "the father of the American cavalry".
  5. 12. - a private person or ship that engaged in maritime warfare under a commission of war.
  6. 16. – Officer who said, “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
  7. 17. - a person who vigorously supports their country and is prepared to defend it against enemies or detractors.
  8. 19. - a French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War.
  9. 20. – British general who led an attack on Charleston resulting in the capture of thousands of prisoners.
  10. 21. – A famous inventor known for “discovering” electricity.
  11. 23. – The brilliant thinker and writer who would write the Declaration of Independence.
  12. 25. – British general who succeeded Henry Clinton.
  13. 31. - an African American from Massachusetts who served as a soldier in the American Revolutionary War.
  14. 32. - A spanish military leader.
  15. 34. – Leader of the French forces that joined Washington.
  16. 36. - A song sung during the Revolutionary War to mock the colonists.
  17. 37. - an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.
  18. 38. – A member of the Virginia House of Burgesses that encouraged people to take action.
  19. 39. – Wife of a soldier who earned her nickname giving pitchers of water to weary soldiers.
  20. 40. – 1 in 5 to 1 in 3 Americans. Also called a “Tori.”
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  1. 1. - a retired British soldier who served as an American general during the Revolutionary War.
  2. 2. - They were non-professional soldiers.
  3. 3. - a person who takes part in an armed conflict who is completely funded by the government.
  4. 4. – One of the first casualties in the Boston Massacre.
  5. 7. – Benjamin Franklin’s son who served as a royal governor of New Jersey.
  6. 8. – A group started by Samuel Adams to protest the Stamp Act.
  7. 11. - the United States' first well-known naval commander in the American Revolutionary War.
  8. 13. – General of the Continental Army.
  9. 14. - a Polish-Lithuanian military engineer, statesman, and military leader who became a national hero in Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, and the United States.
  10. 15. - a Prussian and later an American military officer.
  11. 18. - women who displayed their patriotism by participating in boycotts of British goods following the passage of the Townshend Acts.
  12. 22. – Captain of the Connecticut militia who sold information to the British.
  13. 24. - an American surveyor, soldier, and militia officer from Virginia who became the highest ranking American military officer on the northwestern frontier during the American Revolutionary War.
  14. 26. – Commander of the continental forces of the south, and he replace Gates.
  15. 27. - a Spanish arms dealer and Messenger for the Continental Congress.
  16. 28. - a Massachusetts woman who disguised herself as a man in order to serve in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
  17. 29. - a military officer who served in the American Revolutionary War.
  18. 30. - Thomas Gage, William Howe, Henry Clinton, Guy Carleton, John Burgoyne, Charles Cornwallis, Richard Howe, Mariot Arbuthnot, Robert Boyd, John Byron, Archibald Campbell, John Campbell, Samuel Hood, Benedict Arnold (defected), Joseph Brant,and Francis Smith.
  19. 33. – Virginia’s royal governor who promised African Americans freedom if they joined the British cause.
  20. 35. A group that was neutral in the war because they were opposed to all armed conflict.