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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was one of the founding fathers of the United States. Franklin was a renowned polymath and a leading author,printer, political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, diplomat. -
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Baron von Steuben
Baron von Steuben was a Prussian and later an American military officer. He served as inspector general and major general of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. -
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Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine was an English-born American political activist,philosopher,political theorist, and revolutionary. One of the Founding Fathers in the United States,he authored the two most influential pamphlets at the American Revolution,and he inspired the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain. -
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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was an American statesman, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence. He later severed as the their president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. -
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Betsy Ross
Betsy Ross is widely credited with making the first American flag.
According to family tradition, upon a visit from General George Washington, commander in chief of the Continental Army, in 1776, Ross convinced George Washington to change the shape of the stars he had sketched for the flag from six pointed to five pointed by demonstrating that it was easier and speedier to cut the latter. -
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Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton was an American statesman and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. -
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Lafayette
Lafayette was a French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The battles of Lexington and Concord were actually the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
The Siege of Fort Ticonderoga
Fort Ticonderoga, which is located on Lake Champlain,New York and about 100 men crossed Lake Champlain Champ and at dawn of May 10, 1775 slipped into the fort. -
The Battle of Chelsea Creek
This battle was fought on may 27 and 28, 1775,on Chelsea Creek and salt marshes, mudflats, and islands of Boston Harbor, northeast of the Boston peninsula. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain. -
The Battle of Long Island (Brooklyn Heights)
When George Washington arrives on August 27, he wasted no time on blaming who lost the battle of Long Island. Remaining cool,calm,and confident, he oversaw the construction of new fortifications on Brooklyn Heights. -
The Battle of Cowpens
The Battle of Cowpens was a decisive victory by American Revolutionary forces under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan, in the Southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War. It was a turning point in the reconquest of South Carolina from the British. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War.