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| 413109084 | General William Howe | Commander-in-Chief of the British army in America at the beginning of the Revolutionary War. | |
| 413109085 | George Washington | Commander-in-Chief of the Continental army. First President of the United States. | |
| 413109086 | The American Crisis | Pamphlet penned by Common Sense author Thomas Paine, containing the famous line "These are the times that try men's souls." | |
| 413109087 | Hessians | German soldiers, most from Hesse-cassel principality (hence the name), paid to fight for the British in the Revolutionary War. | |
| 413109088 | Whigs | Another name for revolutionary Patriots. | |
| 413109089 | Tories | Term used by Patriots to refer to Loyalists, or colonists who supported the Crown after the Declaration of Independence. | |
| 413109090 | redcoats | Nickname for British soldiers, after their red uniform jackets. | |
| 413109091 | militia | Adult males between the ages of fifteen and sixty were enrolled in their local militia units. They constituted a home guard, defending their own communities, and they also helped augment the Continental army. | |
| 413109092 | Continental army | Army authorized by the Continental Congress, 1775-84, to fight the British; commanded by General George Washington. | |
| 413109093 | Battle of Saratoga | Major defeat of British general John Burgoyne and more than 5,000 British troops at Saratoga, New York, on October 17, 1777. | |
| 413109094 | Henry Clinton | Commander-in-Chief of the British army in American replacing General Howe after the Battle of Saratoga. | |
| 413109095 | Baron von Steuben | Frederick William Augustus Henry Ferdinand, a Prussian soldier of fortune who trained and inspired Washington's troops at Valley Forge. | |
| 413109096 | George Rogers Clark | Young American General who is credited with having won the West for the new nation | |
| 413109097 | Horatio Gates | American General whose troops defeated the British forces at Saratoga. | |
| 413109098 | Lord Cornwallis | British General who surrendered his troops at Yorktown. | |
| 413109099 | Benedict Arnold | American General who was labeled a traitor when he assisted the British in a failed attempt to take the American fort at West Point. | |
| 413109100 | John Paul Jones | American privateer who helped to disable the British fleet. Credited with the famous words, "I have not yet begun to fight." | |
| 413109101 | Battle of Yorktown | Last battle of the Revolutionary War; General Lord Charles Cornwallis along with over 7,000 British troops surrendered at Yorktown, Virginia, on October 17, 1781. | |
| 413109102 | Peace of Paris | Signed on September 3, 1783, the treaty ending the Revolutionary War and recognizing American independence from Britain also established the border between Canada and the United States, fixed the western border at the Mississippi River, and ceded Florida to Spain. | |
| 413109103 | John Trumbull | American artist and painter who painted four panels in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington: The Declaration of Independence, The Surrender of General Burgoyne, Surrender of Lord Cornwallis, and The Resignation of General Washington. |
