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Joseph Warren † an American physician who played a leading role in American Patriot organizations in Boston in the early days of the American Revolution, eventually serving as President of the revolutionary Massachusetts Provincial Congress. Warren enlisted Paul Revere and William Dawes on April 18, 1775, to leave Boston and spread the alarm ...
Category of Patriot generals of militia in the American Revolutionary War. Those individuals who also held rank in the Continental Army at some point during the war are also listed in the Continental Army categories.
Patriots were colonists of the Thirteen Colonies who rejected British rule during the American Revolution. Many Patriots served in multiple capacities. Many Patriots served in multiple capacities. Statesmen and office holders
Those colonists who fought in units on the British side are categorized under Category:Loyalists in the American Revolution. Men who fought for the United States in the Revolutionary War served in units controlled by their state (part-time militia or regular state troops) or in the Continental Army , which was the full-time, national army under ...
United States military personnel of the American Revolution (6 C, 21 P) Pages in category "Patriots in the American Revolution" The following 113 pages are in this category, out of 113 total.
Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet (1737–1820), last Royal Governor of New Hampshire at the time of the American Revolution; Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia [43] Charles Woodmason ( c. 1720 –1789), Church of England missionary in South Carolina , Virginia , and Maryland , diarist, poet, and corresponding member of the Royal Society of Arts ...
Philip Schuyler, Revolutionary War general, U.S. senator from New York, father of the Schuyler sisters. John Sevier, cofounder of the Watauga Association, Revolutionary War soldier, called the Founding Father of Tennessee [122] Arthur St. Clair, major general, president of the Confederation Congress, and later first governor of the Northwest ...
The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was an armed conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.