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John Adams - One of The Founding Fathers and 2nd President of the U.S. |
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Samuel Adams - American Revolutionary Leader |
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John Andre - conspired with the American traitor Benedict Arnold. |
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Benedict Arnold - secretly arranged with British Major John Andre to hand over West Point to the British. |
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Daniel Boone - Frontiersman and folk hero, he pioneered the trail West. |
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Gen. Charles Cornwallis - was forced to surrender to Washington at Yorktown in 1781, ending the war. |
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Benjamin Franklin - Statesman, scientist, inventor, publisher and more. Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography |
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George III - He opposed liberalization of colonial government in America. |
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Nathanael Greene - Served as supreme commander of the Continental Army in Sept., 1780. |
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Alexander Hamilton - Founding father and first Secretary of the Treasury. |
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John Hancock - 1st signer of the Declaration of Independence, president of the Continental Congress, governor of Massachusetts from 1780-1793. |
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Patrick Henry - Revolutionary War orator and statesman. |
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John Jay - Statesman, diplomat, first Chief Justice of the U.S. President of Continental Congress. |
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Thomas Jefferson - Author of the Declaration of Independence and the Virginia statute for religious freedom, Secretary of State, Vice-President, 3rd President of the U.S. .. |
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Henry Knox - Principal founder of the U.S. Military Academy and co-founder of the U.S. Navy. |
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Marquis de LaFayette - Close associate of G.W. and French citizen who joined America's Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. |
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James Madison - Secretary of State, 4th President of the United States, he authored the Bill of Rights and 29 of the Federalist Papers. |
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Francis Marion - Commander of only Revolutionary forces in South Carolina, he was nicknamed "The Swamp Fox" by British adversaries. |
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Increase Mather - Clergyman, College President, Pastor of North Church, Boston, and the first president of Harvard College. |
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James Monroe - Senator from Virginia, 5th President of the United States, he drew up the Monroe Doctrine in 1823. |
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Thomas Paine - Revolutionary War writer, he gained fame as author of Common Sense, The Crisis, The Rights of Man and The Age of Reason. |
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Arthur St. Clair - Served as President of the Continental Congress, Major General in the Continental Army, and first Governor of the Northwest Territory. |
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Baron von Steuben - Inspector general of Continental Army, he trained troops & wrote the drill manual adopted by the Continental Army. |
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George Washington - Founding father. Member of the Continental Congress, commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, presiding officer of the Constitutional Convention, first President of the United States. |
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Anthony Wayne - A Revolutionary War General, he served with Washington at Valley Forge and negotiated treaties with Creek & Cherokee native Americans. |