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- Patriot General known as the "Swamp Fox" harassed British troops, interfered with their communication lines and hid in swamps when pursued.
- Led an army of farmers and debtors in an uprising called Shay's Rebellion during the CRITICAL PERIOD
- In 1781, led French troops to lay a successful siege to Yorktown
- A schoolteacher disguised as a DUTCH schoolteacher who attempted to spy on General Howe's troops for George Washington, but was caught and hanged by the British
- Known as the "Fighting Quaker", lead the southern forces and won the campaign to take back the South
- Was intended for the church to influence the unconverted; instead the unconverted began changing the church
- Powerful chieftain of the native Aztec Indians
- Made a famous speech at the Second Virginia Convention saying, "I know not what course others may take but as for me, give me liberty or give me death."
- Prime minister who repealed all the Townshend Acts except the one on tea
- Wrote "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies"
- Great British statesman from Ireland that defended the American colonies
- Colonial America's foremost theologianPreached the most famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
- Attacked the real problem with American churches with his sermon "Dangers of an Unconverted Ministry"
- Wrote "Poor Richard's Almanac", an accomplished inventor who invented the lightning rod, created the first subscription library
- Failed to capture Fort Duquesne from the French
- Pastor of separatist Scrooby congregation in Holland
- crossed the Isthmus of Panama and discovered the Pacific Ocean
- Royal governor over the Dominion of New England, which united the New England colonies with New York and New Jersey
- Along with Lord John Berkley were English proprietors of New Jersey
- Prompted by the Sugar Act to publish "The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved"