Revolutionary Heroes

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Revolutionary Heroes
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George Washington

• 1st Commander of the
• Colonial forces.
• Led Patriots to many
• Victories.
• became 1st President
• Of the United States

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Benedict Arnold

• Captain in the Conneticut
• Militia
• Took over Ft. Ticonderoga
• With Ethan Allens Green
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• Sold information to the British

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The Hessians

• British mercenaries named after the land they
  came from in Germany

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Marquis de La Fayette

• French believer in the American ideas
• Volunteered in the Colonial army and served
  without pay
• Became George Washingtons aid

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Fredrich von Steuben

• Prussian soldier who helped train the colonial
  troops at Valley Forge

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George Rogers Clark

• Virginian militia leader whose victories
  strengthened the American presence in the West.

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Francis Marion

• Patriot leader from south Carolina.
• Called the swamp fox because he operated out of
  the swamps and no one could catch him.