American+Revolution


 * Peter Salem** african who founght with the minuteman at Concord and at the battle of Bunker Hill.
 * Battle of yorktown-by late summer of 1778 britvh general charles cronwallis had set up at yorktown a small virginia town on chesapeake bay where it was easy for britch ships to land supplies.**
 * Second Continental Congress T**he seconrd continental congress was a conental of delegates from the thirteen colonist that started meeting on may 10 1775 in philadelphin peensylvania soon after warface in the american.
 * **QUAKERS -ARE AGAINST ALL WARS BECAUSE THEY BELIVE THAT VIOLENCE FOR ANY REASON IS WRONG.** ||~  ||   ||
 * ~  || **Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand von Steuben-** G**erman soldier who helped train patriot troops in the Revolutionary War.** ||
 * ~  || T**homas Jefferson -U.S president and the main writer of the Declaration of Independence.**
 * Battle at Saratoga-more then 5,000 british soldiers under general John burgoyne had moved south from canada hoping to cut the colonies in two instead on october 17,1777 the british lost to continental soldiers led by general Horatio Gates** ||  ||
 * || G**eorge Washington -****1st U.S president, leader of the Continental army during the Revolutioary War and president of the constitutional convention.** ||
 * || **Thomas Paine -****author of a widely read pamphlet called common sense in which he attacked King George III and called for a Revolution to make the colonies** **independent.** ||
 * || **MARY SLOCUMB -1700 NORTH Carolina COLONIST WHO FOUGHT IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.** ||
 * || **mercenary -a hired soldier.** ||  ||
 * || **T****haddeus Kosciuszko- Polish offcer who helped the Patriots in the Revolutionary War he later returned to Poland and led a revolution.** ||||~  ||
 * **Olive Branch Petition-The Patriots sent a letter called the Olive Branch Petition to King George III telling him of their desire for peace and asking him to repeal the Intolerable Acts.** ||  ||
 * Phillis Wheatley-** American poet who wrote poems that praised the Revolution.
 * || **MARY SLOCUMB -1700 NORTH Carolina COLONIST WHO FOUGHT IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.** ||
 * || **mercenary -a hired soldier.** ||  ||
 * || **T****haddeus Kosciuszko- Polish offcer who helped the Patriots in the Revolutionary War he later returned to Poland and led a revolution.** ||||~  ||
 * **Olive Branch Petition-The Patriots sent a letter called the Olive Branch Petition to King George III telling him of their desire for peace and asking him to repeal the Intolerable Acts.** ||  ||
 * Phillis Wheatley-** American poet who wrote poems that praised the Revolution.
 * **Olive Branch Petition-The Patriots sent a letter called the Olive Branch Petition to King George III telling him of their desire for peace and asking him to repeal the Intolerable Acts.** ||  ||
 * Phillis Wheatley-** American poet who wrote poems that praised the Revolution.
 * Phillis Wheatley-** American poet who wrote poems that praised the Revolution.