Important people of the American Revolution

This person was a patriot who was commander in chief for the Continental Army.

• Thomas Paine

• George Washington

• John Adams

• Marquis de Lafayette

This person was a patriot that declare in a naval battle " I have not yet begun to fight" and was skilled leader in Continental Navy (Scottish)

• Marquis de Lafayette

• George Washington

• John Paul Jones

• Thomas Paine

This person was a philosopher that influence Thomas Jefferson when he wrote the Declaration of Independence.

• John Adams

• Mercy Otis Warren

• John Locke

• George Washington

This person was the King of England during the American Revolution

• King George III

• John Locke

• Thomas Paine

• King James I

This patriot wrote "Common Sense" to convince colonist to support independence from Britain.

• Thomas Paine

• George Washington

• John Paul Jones

• Mercy Otis Warren

This person was a French General that volunteer to train the Continental Army.

• Samuel Adams

• Marquis de Lafayette

• James Armistead

• James Bond

This patriot helped secure French aid to the Continental Army, signed the Declaration of Independence, and negotiated the treaty of Paris 1783.

• Thomas Jefferson

• Patrick Henry

• Benjamin Franklin

• Cryspus Attucks

This patriot die in the Boston massacre and is consider the first casualty of the American Revolution.

• George Washington

• Cryspus Attucks

• Patrick Henry

• Thomas Jefferson

This patriot was a lawyer, opposed the stamp act and proclaim "Give me liberty of Give me death"

• Patrick Henry

• George Washington

• Benjamin Franklin

• Thomas Jefferson

This patriot wrote the majority of the Declaration of Independence

• Patrick Henry

• Thomas Jefferson

• Cryspus Attucks

• Benjamin Franklin