Name |
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Notes |
John |
Adams |
Statesman, diplomat, second president of U.S. |
Samuel |
Adams |
Statesman, founder Sons of Liberty |
Abigail |
Adams |
Patriot. Wife and confidante of John Adams |
John Quincy |
Adams |
Diplomat, sixth president of U.S. |
Ethan |
Allen |
Soldier, politician, writer, siezed Ft Ticonderoga |
|
Altakullakulla |
Cherokee chief, neutral |
John |
Andre |
British spy, hanged |
Charles |
Armand |
American officer in south |
Benedict |
Arnold |
American general and traitor |
John |
Ashe |
American officer in south |
Crispus |
Attucks |
Boston Massacre victim |
Hendrick |
Aupaumut |
Mahican leader on American side |
John |
Baily |
American officer at Saratoga |
Glbert |
Barkley |
British spy in Philadelphia |
Augustin Caron de |
Beaumarchais |
French supply contact |
Nicholas |
Biddle |
American naval officer |
Richard |
Bland |
VA congressional delegate |
Colonel |
Boyd |
NC tory |
Joseph |
Brandt |
Mohawk war chief who supported British |
Morgan |
Bryan |
NC tory officer |
John |
Burgoyne |
British general, surrendered at Saratoga |
Aaron |
Burr |
American officer at Quebec |
David |
Bushnell |
Inventor of submarine, The Turtle |
John |
Buttrick |
Am. officer order men to return fire at Concord |
John |
Cadwalader |
American officer at Princeton |
William |
Campbell |
Royal Governor of SC |
Archibald |
Campbell |
British officer in south |
Sir Guy |
Carleton |
Bristish commander of Canada |
Earl of |
Carlisle |
British peace commissioner |
Patrick |
Carr |
Boston Massacre victim |
Charles |
Carroll |
Maryland planter, politician, businessman |
Colonel de |
Castine |
French officer |
Richard |
Caswell |
American officer in south |
Colonel |
Caval |
French officer |
Benjamin |
Church |
Political leader |
George Rogers |
Clark |
American frontier fighter |
George Rogers |
Clark |
American general in west |
George |
Clinton |
Governor of NY, vice-president U.S. |
Sir Henry |
Clinton |
British commander in chief, replaced Howe |
Thomas |
Conway |
Of cabal fame |
Thadeus |
Cook |
American officer at Saratoga |
John Singleton |
Copley |
American painter |
|
Cornstalk |
Shawnee chief killed in captivity |
Charles |
Cornwallis |
British general surrendered at Yorktown |
Phillip van |
Cortlandt |
American officer at Saratoga |
William |
Crawford |
American officer in west killed in battle |
John Harris |
Cruger |
Tory commander at 96 |
John |
Cunningham |
American officer at Cowpens |
Colonel |
d'Audenchamp |
French officer |
William |
Dawes |
Second midnight rider |
Silas |
Deane |
American statesman |
Henry |
Dearborn |
American officer at Saratoga |
Baron |
DeKalb |
American officer mortally wounded at Camden |
Oliver |
DeLancey |
Tory general |
Colonel de |
Deux Ponts |
French officer |
Philemon |
Dickinson |
American officer |
John |
Dickinson |
Politician, author of Letters from a Farmer |
Carl von |
Dunop |
Hessian officer |
William |
Eden |
British peace commissioner |
Comte de |
Estaing |
French naval commander |
Patrick |
Ferguson |
Loyalist officer killed at Kings Mt. |
Roche de |
Fermoy |
American general |
Benjamin |
Franklin |
Statesman, printer, scientist, author, diplomat |
Simon |
Fraser |
British officer |
Philip |
Freneau |
American revolutionary poet |
Christopher |
Gadsden |
SC congressional delegate |
Thomas |
Gage |
British general, evacuated Boston, Howe replaces |
Major |
Gardiner |
British officer |
Horatio |
Gates |
American general, victor at Saratoga |
King |
George III |
King of England |
Lord George |
Germain |
British colonial secretary of state |
Joseph Lewis |
Gill |
Abenaki chief who switched to British |
Mordecai |
Gist |
American officer in south |
John |
Glover |
MA fisherman, helped at Brooklyn & Trenton |
James |
Grant |
British officer at Bunker Hill |
Comte de |
Grasse |
French naval commander at Yorktown |
Nathaniel |
Greene |
Youngest American general |
Charles |
Grey |
British officer |
Timothy |
Griffin |
American drunk shot for encouraging mutiny |
Nathan |
Hale |
"I regret I have but one life for my country" |
Nathan |
Hale |
American officer at Saratoga |
Alexander |
Hamilton |
Aide to Washington, Sec of Treasury, Federalist |
Henry |
Hamilton |
British Indian agent |
John |
Hancock |
President of Continental Congress, Gov. of MA |
Edward |
Hand |
American general in west |
William |
Harcourt |
British colonel who caputer General Lee |
Benjamin |
Harrison |
VA congressional delegate |
Philip van |
Heister |
Hessian officer at Brooklyn |
Patrick |
Henry |
VA statesman, "Give me liberty or give me death" |
Nicholas |
Herkimer |
American general, died defending Oriskany |
Sir George |
Hood |
British naval commander |
Stephen |
Hopkins |
RI Quaker, congressional delegate |
Mingo |
Houma |
Chickasaw war chief |
John |
Howard |
American officer at Cowpens |
Sir William |
Howe |
Commander in chief of British army in N. America |
Robert |
Howe |
American southern commander |
Richard |
Howe |
Commander in chief of British navy in N. America |
Issac |
Huger |
American officer at Charleston |
|
Hutchinson |
Salem officer assisted with Brooklyn evacuation |
Thomas |
Hutchinson |
British governor of Massachusetts |
Henry |
Jackson |
American officer at Saratoga |
John |
Jay |
Jurist, diplomat and president of Cont. Congress |
Thomas |
Jefferson |
Author of Dec. of Independence, 3rd U.S. president |
George |
Johnstone |
British peace commissioner |
John Paul |
Jones |
U.S. naval commander |
Thomas |
Knowlton |
American officer at Harlem Heights |
Henry |
Knox |
Bookseller, American general, secretary of war |
Wilhelm von |
Knyphausen |
Hessian general |
Thaddeus |
Kosciuszko |
Polish soldier and engineer |
Marque de |
Lafayette |
American military commander |
Jonathan |
Lattiner |
American officer at Saratoga |
Henry |
Laurens |
Captive American diplomat |
John |
Laurens |
American officer killed in battle |
Ebennezer |
Learned |
American officer at Saratoga |
Charles |
Lee |
British born controversial American general |
Henry |
Lee |
American cavalry officer |
General |
Leslie |
British general |
Benjamin |
Lincoln |
American southern commander |
Henry |
Livingston |
American officer at Saratoga |
James |
Livingston |
American officer at Saratoga |
Robert |
Livingston |
American statesman |
King |
Louis XVI |
King of France |
Thomas |
Lynch |
SC congressional delegate |
Allan |
Macdonald |
NC loyalist |
Allan |
Maclean |
British officer at Quebec |
James |
Madison |
Statesman, fourth president of U.S. |
Robert |
Magaw |
American officer at Ft. Washington |
Francis |
Marion |
Militia commander known as the swamp fox |
John |
Marshall |
Chief Justice, Supreme Court |
Paya |
Mataba |
Chickasaw war chief |
William |
Maxwell |
American officer |
James |
McCall |
American officer at Cowpens |
Jane |
McCrea |
Tory victim became patriot martyr |
Donald |
McDonald |
NC loyalist |
Charles |
McDowell |
American officer at Cowpens |
Allen |
McLean |
American officer |
Henry |
Middleton |
SC congressional delegate |
Thomas |
Mifflin |
Washington aide |
James |
Monroe |
Fifth president of U.S. |
Richard |
Montgomery |
American general killed at Quebec |
James |
Moore |
NC officer |
Daniel |
Morgan |
Frontiersman, American general |
Gouverneur |
Morris |
Lawyer and diplomat |
Robert |
Morris |
Merchant and financier |
Issac |
Motte |
American officer at Charleston |
William |
Moultrie |
American officer at Charleston |
John |
Murray |
Royal Governor of VA |
Abraham |
Nimham |
Mahican leader on American side |
John |
Nixon |
American officer at Saratoga |
Lord |
North |
British statesman |
General |
O'Hara |
Tendered Cownwallis sword at Yorktown |
|
Oconostota |
Cherokee chief, neutral |
James |
Otis |
American statesman |
Thomas |
Paine |
Author of Commonsense |
John |
Parker |
Minuteman captain killed at Lexington |
Peter |
Parker |
British Admiral at Charleston |
John |
Patterson |
American officer at Saratoga |
Charles Wilson |
Peale |
American painter |
Edmund |
Pendleton |
VA congressional delegate |
Good |
Peter |
Oneida chief |
Arent S. De |
Peyster |
British commander at Detroit |
William |
Phillips |
British officer |
Andrew |
Pickens |
SC militia officer |
Charles C |
Pickney |
American officer at Charleston |
John |
Pitcairn |
British officer killed at Bunker Hill |
William |
Pitt |
British statesman |
Colonel de |
Pondeux |
French officer |
Enoch |
Poor |
American general |
James |
Potter |
American officer |
Eugenio |
Pourre |
Spanish officer in west |
William |
Prescott |
American officer at Bunker Hill |
Augustin |
Prevost |
British general |
Casimir |
Pulaski |
Polish general |
Israel |
Putnam |
American general |
Rufus |
Putnum |
American chief engineer |
Johann |
Rall |
Hessian commander killed at Trenton |
Peyton |
Randolph |
VA congressional delegate |
Francis |
Rawdon |
British officer in south |
Paul |
Revere |
Silversmith, midnight ride alerts against British |
Baron |
Riedesel |
Hessian officer |
Owen |
Roberts |
American officer at Charleston |
Jean Baptiste |
Rochambeau |
French general at Yorktown |
Sir George |
Rodney |
Prominent British admiral |
Robert |
Rogers |
French & Indian War here, loyalist |
Betsy |
Ross |
Seamstress, alleged to have created the U.S. flag |
Colonel de |
Rostany |
French officer |
Benajamin |
Rush |
Physician, writer |
Griffith |
Rutherford |
American officer in south |
John |
Rutledge |
South Carolina lawyer and governor |
Edward |
Rutledge |
South Carolina lawyer and governor |
Alexander |
Scammell |
American officer at Saratoga |
Philip |
Schuyler |
General, slowed British advance south to Albany |
John |
Shee |
American officer at Ft. Washington |
Roger |
Sherman |
CT shoemaker, congressional delegate |
Peggy |
Shippen |
Wife of Benedict Arnold |
William |
Smallwood |
American officer |
Francis |
Smith |
British officer at Lexington and Concord |
Joseph |
Spencer |
American officer at White Plains |
Arthur |
St. Clair |
American general |
Colonel de |
St. Maime |
French officer |
John |
Stark |
New Hampshire officer at Bennington |
Baron von |
Steuben |
Prussian general, trained American troops |
Edward |
Stevens |
American officer in south |
Gilbert |
Stuart |
American painter |
John |
Sullivan |
General, lawyer, governor of New Hampshire |
Jethro |
Sumner |
American officer in south |
Thomas |
Sumter |
American officer in souther campaign |
|
Swashan |
Abenaki chief who supported Americans |
Benjamin |
Tallmadge |
American officer |
Banastre |
Tareleton |
Infamous British calvary colonel |
Captain |
Tate |
American officer at Cowpens |
William |
Thompson |
American officer at Charleston |
Tench |
Tilghman |
Rode to Philadelphia to report Yorktown win |
Captain |
Triplett |
American officer at Cowpens |
John |
Trumbull |
American painter |
Comte de |
Vergennes |
French minister, supply conduit to America |
Artemas |
Ward |
American general |
Seth |
Warner |
American officer, Battle of Bennington |
Mercy |
Warren |
American patriot |
Joseph |
Warren |
American commander died at Bunker Hill |
George |
Washington |
American commander, first president of U.S. |
William |
Washington |
American colonel |
Martha |
Washington |
Wife of George Washington |
Anthony |
Wayne |
American soldier |
James |
Webster |
British officer in south |
Benjamin |
West |
American painter |
Phillis |
Wheatley |
Slave, internationally known poet |
Otho |
Williams |
American adjunct general |
Andrew |
Williamson |
American officer in south |
James |
Wilson |
American officer at Saratoga |