1. Chapter 8: The American Revolution (1776-1783)
People

2. Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys
Captured Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain New York, securing large number of cannons for General Washington.

3. Thomas Jefferson
Virginia delegate to Continental Congress who wrote Declaration of Independence.

4. Benjamin Franklin
Pennsylvania delegate to Continental Congress, negotiated Treaty of Alliance with France ,and Treaty of Paris ending the war.
Ben Franklin at a late night Salon in Paris

5. John Jay
New York delegate to Continental Congress, who helped negotiate Treaty of Paris ending the war.
Benjamin West, The Treaty of Paris, Oil on Canvas, 1783
John Jay is on the far left!

6. Nathan Hale
American Patriot spy captured and executed by British. Last words were “I regret I have one life to give to my country!”
"Last Words of Nathan Hale," stipple engraving by Scottish artist Alexander Hay Ritchie ( ). 10 3/16 in. x 12 3/16 in. Courtesy of the Mabel Brady Garvan Collection, Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 1858

7. John Paul Jones
Father of American Navy who said “I have not yet begun to fight!”
Oil on canvas, 21" x 28", by Thomas Mitchell ( ), signed and dated by the artist, Wikipedia Commons.

8. Molly Pitcher
She carried water to soldiers at the Battle of Monmouth, and it’s thought that she fired some cannons on her own.
Molly Pitcher at the Battle of Monmouth, artist unknown print,1859. Wikimedia Commons.
The women of '76: "Molly Pitcher" the heroine of Monmouth…
Currier & Ives. - Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Wikimedia Commons.

9. Daniel Morgan
Patriot leader who defeated the British at the Battle of Cowpens in South Carolina.
The Battle of Cowpens, painted by William Ranney in Wikimedia Commons.
Unknown artist, George Washington Bicentennial Commission. (ca ca. 12/31/1934), Title Morgan, Daniel. Wikimedia Commons.

10. Nathaniel Greene
Patriot General who defeated the British in the war in the South.
Battle of Guilford Courthose, downloaded from Prints and Posters: Soldiers of the American Revolution, Center of Military History. Access date: June Wikimedia Commons.
Charles Wilson Peale, Nathaniel Greene Portrait, Oil on Canvas, Wikimedia Commons.

11. Benedict Arnold
Peggy Shippin convinced her husband, American General Benedict Arnold , to switch to the British side.
Daniel Gardner, Peggy Shippin (wife of Benedict Arnold) and their child Sophia Arnold, Oil on Canvas, Wikimedia Commons.
He was once one of Washington’s most trusted generals, but he became the most famous TRAITOR in our nation’s history!

12. King Louis 16
French king during the American Revolution who sent the French Army, Navy, and weapons to aid the Americans.
French Royal Flag during American Revolution! Today’s tricolor French Flag was create during the French Revolution after the monarchy was abolished and the king executed.
Joseph Dupless, Portrait of Louis XVI, King of France and Navarre ( ), Oil on Canvas, Wikimedia Commons.

13. Marquis de Lafayette
Joseph Desire Court, Portrait of Gilbert Motier the Marquis De La Fayette as a Lieutenant General, Oil on Canvas, Wikimedia Commons.
19 year old Frenchman became an American General, because he loved America and the ideals of the American Revolution

14. Admiral Francois de Grasse
French admiral set up a blockade in the Chesapeake Bay trapping British General Cornwallis at Yorktown.
V. Zveg, Second Battle of the Virginia Capes, Oil on Canvas, US Navy Naval History and Heritage Command wikimedia commons.
Antoine Maurin, Count De Grasse. Painting, wikimedia commons.

15. King George III British King during the American Revolution.
Workshop of Alan Ramsey, King George III, Oil on Canvas, 1763.

16. John Burgoyne
British General who was ordered to stop the Americans after Trenton and Princeton, but the patriots defeated this man at the Battle of Saratoga.
Joshua Reynolds, general John Burgoyne, oil on canvas, wikimedia commons.

17. General Cornwallis
British General who was trapped and defeated at the Battle of Yorktown, bringing the war very close to an end.
John Trumball, Surrender of Lord Cornwallis (1781), Oil on Canvas, wikimedia commons.