US I Revolutionary War People

Free African American who fights for the colonist

• Ethan Allen

• Josiah Quincy

• Peter Salem

• Benjamin Rush

Surgeon General for the Continental Army

• Ethan Allen

• Josiah Quincy

• Peter Salem

• Benjamin Rush

Chief Artillery Officer

• Henry Knox

• Ethan Allen

• Anthony Wayne

• Peter Salem

Helped organize and finance the Continental Army in Georgia and South Carolina

• Benjamin Rush

• Peter Salem

• Mordecail Sheftall

• Ethan Allen

Conquers of the Northwest for the Continental Army

• Phillis Wheatley

• Charles Carroll

• George Rogers Clark

• Esther Deberdt Reed

defends the British soldiers at trial for the Boston Massacre

• Thomas Paine

• Phillis Wheatley

• Polly Cooper

• John Adams

personally finances the war

• Robert Morris

• John Stark

• Daniel Morgan

• Hyam Salomon

only Roman Catholic to sign the Declaration

• Charles Carroll

• Phillis Wheatley

• George Rogers Clark

• Ana Smith Strong

became known as Madman because of his nighttime raid only the bayonets

• Peter Salem

• Anthony Wayne

• Benjamin Rush

• Henry Knox

writes the poem, "His Excellency George Washington"

• Phillis Wheatley

• Thomas Paine

• Charles Carroll

• Polly Cooper