The American Revolution Chapter 6

Colonist who warned the minutemen that British troops were marching toward Concord

Some members of colonial militias were known as

The colonists’ ability to withstand an assault by the British army was proved at the

crossed Lake Champlain from Vermont and at dawn surprised and captured the sleeping garrison at Fort Ticonderoga.

A 50 page pamphlet that argued in clear and forceful language that the time had come for the colonists to declare their independence.

supported the British,

supported independence.

British ruler who rejected the Olive Branch Petition

Person appointed commander of the Continental Army

military blockade of a city or fort

General Washington successfully used the tactic of surprise at the battles of

December 26, 1776, battle between Hessians and Patriot forces

hired foreign soldiers who fight in a war

One important advantage that the colonists had over the British was

The primary author of the Declaration of Independence

While this general waited for two other British armies to arrive in the Hudson Valley, his supplies were dwindling, the morale of his men was shrinking, and winter was fast approaching.

the French formally declared their support for the Patriot cause after this battle

a young Frenchman who spoke little English arrived in the United States to help the colonists battle the British.

After the American victory at Saratoga, the British shifted their focus more toward the

After the southern army was destroyed, the Patriots relied on swift attacks called

order issued by the royal governor of Virginia offering freedom to any slave who would fight for the British

The Swamp Fox was a name given to the guerrilla leader

The decision in her case was the basis for freedom of the few slaves remaining in Massachusetts.

She came down with a fever and was sent to a hospital where doctors discovered the soldier was a woman.

Tradition has it that he would attempt to convey his orders with sign language when confusion over his lack of English ensued. When that did not work, he would curse and swear in German and French while drilling soldiers

Gen. George Washington put him in charge of military engineering works at West Point along the Hudson River. For 28 months, he planned and built permanent fortifications at West Point, and was so successful that the British never attacked. Furthermore, he is also the namesake for numerous statutes, bridges, streets and parks across the United States and the world. Not to mention in Poland where every major town has a street or a square named after him.

He knew that his best chance of success was to strike first by surprise. Within a month he had captured all four British forts in the lower Mississippi including Baton Rouge and Natchez. He captured 550 enemy soldiers and two naval vessels, one of which was captured from land.

led a small force of frontiersmen through the freezing waters of the Illinois country to capture British-held Forts at Kaskaskia and Vincennes

more than one fifth of Washington’s troops died of disease and malnutrition at

Surrendered his troops at Yorktown, Virginia to the combined forces of America and France.

In the fall of 1781, General George Washington, with allied American and French forces, besieged General Charles Lord Cornwallis’s British army at this Virginia tobacco port.

The national borders of the United States were laid out in