8th Grade Chapter 4 Vocab

Hired foreign soldiers

• Mercenaries

• Redcoats

• Minutemen

• Patriots

(1776) a Revolutionary War battle in New Jersey in which Patriot forces captured more than 900 Hessian troops

• Battle of Trenton

• Battle of Saratoga

• Battle of Yorktown

• Battle of Bunker Hill

(1777) a Revolutionary War battle in New York that resulted in a major defeat of British troops; greatest Patriot victory up to that point of the war

• Battle of Saratoga

• Battle of Trenton

• Battle of Yorktown

• Battle of Yorktown

A Frenchman who volunteered to serve in the Continental Army without pay and used his money and influence to support the Patriots

• Marquis de Lafayette

• Baron Friedrich Von Steuben

• Bernardo de Galvez

• John Paul Jones

A Prussian military officer who trained the Continental Army

• Baron Friedrich Von Steuben

• Bernardo de Galvez

• Marquis de Lafayette

• George Rogers Clark

The governor of Spanish Louisiana, who became a Patriot ally

• Bernardo de Galvez

• John Paul Jones

• George Rogers Clark

• Francis Marion

A brave and clever naval commander

• John Paul Jones

• George Rogers Clark

• Francis Marion

• Comte de Rochambeau

A surveyor who led the Patriots' western campaign

• George Rogers Clark

• John Paul Jones

• Francis Marion

• Bernardo de Galvez

A Patriot leader who used hit and run attacks, known as guerilla warfare.

• Francis Marion

• Comte de Rochambeau

• Baron Friedrich Von Steuben

• Marquis de Lafayette

Commander of 4,000 French troops that aided the Patriot forces in the Battle of Yorktown

• Comte de Rochambeau

• Marquis de Lafayette

• John Paul Jones

• Francis Marion