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  1. 2. regarded as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre and thus the first American killed in the American Revolution.
  2. 4. colonist loyal to Great Britain during the American Revolution.
  3. 6. General George Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware River. They launched a surprise attack on Hessian forces in New Jersey
  4. 7. an American polymath who was active as a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher
  5. 9. civilians who follow armies.
  6. 12. pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776.
  7. 13. by U.S. and British Representatives on September 3, 1783, ending the War of the American Revolution
  8. 15. a small but pivotal American Revolutionary War battle that took place on the morning of December 26, 1776, in Trenton, New Jersey
  9. 17. sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared
  10. 18. a woman said to have carried water to American soldiers during the Battle of Monmouth on June 28, 1778
  11. 20. Wrote the deceleration of independance
  12. 21. who drafted and presented to the full Congress
  13. 22. served as a diplomat in Europe and helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris.
  14. 23. the colonists of the Thirteen Colonies who rejected British rule during the American Revolution
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  1. 1. alliance between the Kingdom of France and the United States during the American Revolutionary War.
  2. 2. meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America that united in the American Revolutionary War
  3. 3. a retired British soldier who served as an American general during the Revolutionary War
  4. 5. the third of eight winter encampments for the Continental Army's main body, commanded by General George Washington
  5. 8. served the Continental Army with distinction during the American Revolutionary War, providing tactical leadership while securing vital resources from France.
  6. 10. an army of the Thirteen Colonies
  7. 11. He served as Inspector General and a Major General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
  8. 14. marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War
  9. 16. was commander in chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War
  10. 19. proved to be the decisive engagement of the American Revolution. The British surrender.