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| 7105435959 | George Washington | He was initially a military leader in the French and Indian War who pulled his small force back into Fort Necessity where he was overwhelmed by the French. He was the commander of Virginia's frontier troops as a colonel. Later, he was Commander of the Continental Army during the American Revolution. | 0 | |
| 7105437958 | William Howe | He was a British Army officer who rose to become Commander-in-Chief of British forces during the American War of Independence. | 1 | |
| 7105440943 | Nathanael Greene | He was a colonial general who fought in the American Revolution. He used the fighting tactic of retreating and getting the English to pursue him for miles, biding his time and waiting for the chance to make a move. The significance was that he helped clear Georgia and South Carolina of British troops. | 2 | |
| 7105445934 | Benedict Arnold | He was an American General during the Revolutionary War. He prevented the British from reaching Ticonderoga and thus delayed the British assault on New York. Later, in 1778, he tried to help the British take West Point and the Hudson River but he was found out and declared a traitor. | 3 | |
| 7105448077 | John Burgoyne | He was a British general that submitted a plan for invading New York state from Canada. He was then given charge of the army. He surrendered at Saratoga on Oct. 17, 1777. This battle helped to bring France into the war as an ally for the colonies. | 4 | |
| 7105451532 | Charles Cornwallis | He was a British general who fought in the Seven Years War, was elected to the House of Commons in 1760, and lost battles to George Washington on December 26, 1776 and on January 3, 1777. On October 19, 1781, he surrendered his troops at Yorktown signaling the end of the American Revolution. | 5 | |
| 7105456583 | Thomas Paine | He wrote the pamphlet Common Sense saying the colonies should set up America as an independent, democratic, republic away from England. Over 120,000 copies of his pamphlet were sold and this helped spark the colonists' call for independence. | 6 | |
| 7105459569 | Barry St. Leger | He was a British officer in the American Revolutionary War. He led a British advance into New York's Mohawk Valley in the summer of 1777. Hoping to join the British army of General John Burgoyne at Albany. He was halted by American forces and retreated to Canada. | 7 | |
| 7105467022 | George Rogers Clark | He was a frontiersman who led the seizing of 3 British forts in 1777 along the Ohio River. This later led to the British giving the region north of the Ohio River to the United States | 8 | |
| 7105468272 | Richard Henry Lee | He was a member of Philadelphia's Continental Congress during the late 1770's. On June 7, 1776 he declared, "These United colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states." This resolution was the start of the Declaration of Independence. | 9 | |
| 7105470589 | Horatio Gates | He was a retired British soldier who served as an American general during the Revolutionary War. He took credit for the American victory in the Battles of Saratoga (1777) - a matter of contemporary and historical controversy - and was blamed for the defeat at the Battle of Camden in 1780. | 10 | |
| 7105475921 | John Paul Jones | He was the America's first well-known naval commander in the American Revolutionary War. | 11 | |
| 7105478856 | Thomas Jefferson | He was a member of the House of Burgesses, wrote the Declaration of Independence, was ambassador to France, and was the third president of the United States of America. | 12 | |
| 7105481113 | Marquis de Lafayette | He was a French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War on the side of the colonists. | 13 | |
| 7105486566 | Admiral de Grasse | He was a French admiral best known for his command of the French fleet at the Battle of the Chesapeake, which led directly to the British surrender at Yorktown. | 14 | |
| 7105490404 | Patrick Henry | He was a fiery lawyer during Revolutionary War times. Supporting a break from Great Britain, he is famous for the words, "...give me liberty, or give me death!" which concluded a speech given to the Virginia Assembly in 1775. | 15 | |
| 7105492316 | Comte de Rochambeau | He commanded a powerful French army of 6,000 troops in the summer of 1780 and arrived in Newport, Rhode Island. He was planning a Franco-American attack on New York. | 16 | |
| 7105495383 | John Jay | He was the First Chief Justice of the United States, and also an American statesman and jurist. Elected to the Continental Congress, he also helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris with Great Britain, ending the American Revolution. | 17 |
