Revolutionary War Facts and Important People 2021

African American double spy who provided information about British movement, as well as, information leading to British defeat at Yorktown.

• Crispus Attucks
• James Armistead
• Marquis de Lafayette
• Bernardo de Galvez

Wife of John Adams; known for her letters to her husband that served as primary accounts of Revolutionary life

• Abigail Adams
• Mercy Otis Warren
• Martha Washington
• Marquis de Lafayette

Author of the "Albany Plan of Union"; helped write the "Declaration of Independence"; convinced France to become our ally in the Revolution; negotiated the "Treaty of Paris". 

• John Paul Jones
• Thomas Jefferson
• George Washington
• Benjamin Franklin

King of England during the American Revolution

• King George III
• Prince Harry
• Bernardo de Galvez
• George Washington

Fierce supporter of the patriot cause; best known for "Give me Liberty or give me death" speech.

• Wentworth Cheswell
• Patrick Henry
• Haym Salomon
• Crispus Attucks

Famous US Navy commander; won important naval victories against the British in the Revolutionary War.

• George Washington

• Patrick Henry

• Bernardo de Galvez

• John Paul Jones

African American who was the first to be killed at the Boston Massacre. 

• James Armistead
• Samuel Adams
• Crispus Attucks
• Franklin Douglas

Delegate to the Continental Congress and member of the Declaration Committee; he was a lawyer and eventually became the 2nd president of the United States.

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Hancock

• Benjamin Franklin

• John Adams

Author of "Common Sense" and " American Crisis" 

• Thomas Paine
• Thomas Jefferson
• Benjamin Franklin
• George Washington

Delegate to the Continental Congress; primary author of the "Declaration of Independence". He became the 3rd president of the United States.

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

• John Locke

• Samuel Adams