1. Commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary war and the first president of the United States

2. George Washington

3. A professional soldier hired to fight for a foreign country

4. mercenary

5. Overall plan of action

6. strategy

7. A prearranged meeting, often an assembly point for troops

8. rendezvous

9. A series of conflicts that ended in victory for the Continental Army, and a turning point in the Revolutionary war

10. Battles of Saratoga

11. A country that agrees to help another country achieve a common goal

12. ally

13. A French nobleman who believed in the American cause and served as a commander under Washington

14. Marquis deLafayette

15. A long steel knife attached to the end of a gun for hand-to-hand combat

16. bayonet

17. Camp where Washington’s army suffered from cold and hunger; became a symbol of the hardships of the war

18. Valley Forge

19. To abandon military duty without intending to return

20. desert

21. A privately owned ship that has governmental permission to attack an enemy’s merchant ships

22. privateer

23. Continental Naval officer who patrolled the English coast and won a battle against the British warship Serapis

24. John Paul Jones

25. British General who fought in the South during the Revolutionary War and who surrendered in 1781

26. Lord Cornwallis

27. Soldiers who weaken the enemy with surprise raids and hit-and- run attacks

28. guerillas

29. A person morally opposed to war

30. pacifist

31. The last major battle of the Revolutionary War which resulted in the surrender of the British forces in 1781

32. Battle of Yorktown

33. The treaty that ended the Revolutionary War, confirmed the independence of the U.S., and set its boundaries

34. Treaty of Paris of 1783

35. The belief in a government in which decisions are made by elected or appointed officials

36. republicanism

37. In 1781 she helped to end slavery in Massachusetts by suing for her freedom in court and winning

38. Elizabeth Freeman

39. Preacher who helped start the Free African Society; founded the first African Methodist Episcopal Church

40. Richard Allen