| British General at Bunker Hill |
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| Called a "Royal Brute" in the pamphlet, Common Sense. |
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| Started the Sons of Liberty to protest the Stamp Act. Later organized a Boston committee of correspondence to spread information on the colonists' complaints against Britain. |
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| Captured Fort Ticonderoga in May 1775. Organized the Green Mountain Boys to fight the British on the frontier of New York. |
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| President of the Second Continental Congress, One of the wealthiest colonists, he gave money to fund the sons of Liberty. |
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| One of the most admired men in the colonies, had been a spokesman for the colonists in London to urge Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act. Delegate from Pennsylvania to the Second Continental Congress. |
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| Warned Samuel Adams and John Hancock that the British were coming to arrest them and take the minutemen's store of weapons. His engraving of the "Boston Massacre" enraged colonists against the British. |
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| Wrote a powerful and popular pamphlet urging colonists to establish a republic and declare independence from Britian. Criticized the king as a "Royal Brute." |
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| At Bunker Hill, he ordered his men, "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes." |
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| Wrote a document to put before mankind the causes which led the colonists to break with England. |
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| Appointed commander of the Continental Army. |
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| Member of the Virginia Assembly who in 1774, called for independence, declaring, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" |
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