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American civil leaders, such as Patrick Henry and Paul Revere, played important roles in the fight to gain independence. This section contains information about some of the people involved in the birth of the new country.
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Jones, John Paul (1747–1792), a Scottish-American naval officer who has been called the Father of the United States Navy. See more »
Charles Carroll
Carroll, Charles (1737–1832), an American Revolutionary patriot and statesman. He was the wealthiest signer of the Declaration of Independence and the only Roman Catholic.
See more »Charles Lee
Lee, Charles (1731–1782), an American Revolutionary War army officer. He was a military adventurer whose conduct during the Battle of Monmouth led to charges of treason.
See more »Charles Pinckney
Pinckney, Charles (1757–1824), a United States statesman and diplomat. Pinckney was a signer of the U.S.
See more »Christopher Gadsden
Gadsden Christopher (1724--1805), an American Revolutionary War patriot. Gadsden was born in Charleston, South Carolina.
See more »Comte De Rochambeau
Rochambeau, Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Comte de (1725–1807), a French army officer who aided Washington in the American Revolution.
See more »Daniel Carroll
Carroll, Daniel (1730–1796), an American Revolutionary patriot. He was one of the signers of the United States Constitution.
See more »Daniel Morgan
Morgan, Daniel (1736–1802), a United States frontiersman and army officer. Early in the Revolutionary War Morgan commanded a company of Virginia riflemen for the patriots.
See more »Deane, Silas
Deane, Silas (1737–1789), an American Revolutionary leader. A wealthy Connecticut lawyer and merchant, Deane was a delegate to the Continental Congress, 1774–76.
See more »Edward Preble
Preble, Edward (1761–1807), a United States naval officer who was an important figure in the war with Tripoli.
See more »Esek Hopkins
Hopkins, the name of two United States brothers who were active in the patriot cause during the Revolutionary War.
See more »Ethan Allen
Allen, Ethan (1738–1789), a military leader in the American Revolution and a Vermont patriot.
See more »Francis Lewis
Lewis, Francis (1713–1802?), an American patriot and merchant. Lewis was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
See more »Francis Lightfoot Lee
Lee, Francis Lightfoot (1734–1797), a Revolutionary War statesman and signer of the Declaration of Independence.
See more »Francis Marion
Marion, Francis (1732?–1795), an American Revolutionary War army officer. Marion was called “the Swamp Fox” because of his skillful hit-and-run raids as a partisan (guerrilla) leader in the swamps of South Carolina during 1780–82.
See more »Friedrich Wilhelm Baron Von Steuben
Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm, Baron von (1730–1794), a Prussian army officer who served in the American Revolutionary War.
See more »George Clinton
Clinton, George (1739–1812), a United States political leader. He was elected Vice President of the United States twice—under Thomas Jefferson (1804) and under James Madison (1812).
See more »George Clymer
Clymer, George (1739–1813), a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution.
See more »George Mason
Mason, George (1725–1792), a United States statesman of the Revolutionary and early national period.
See more »George Read
Read, George (1733-1798), a leader of colonial Delaware and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
See more »George Rogers Clark
Clark, George Rogers (1752–1818), an American military leader. As a result of his victories over the British in the Revolutionary War, the peace treaty signed in Paris in 1783 recognized the boundaries of the United States as including all land between Spanish Florida and the Great Lakes, as far west as the Mississippi River.
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