Military leadership in the American Revolutionary War
This is a list of people who have been involved in a decisive and remarkable way at the American independence movement and / or the American War of Independence.
American Patriotic military
- Ethan Allen
- William Alexander
- Benedict Arnold
- Daniel Brodhead
- James Clinton
- Horatio Gates
- Nathanael Greene
- Alexander Hamilton
- Edward Hand
- William Heath
- Robert Howe
- William Irvine
- John Paul Jones
- Henry Knox
- John Laurens
- Charles Lee
- " Light Horse " Henry Lee
- Benjamin Lincoln
- Francis Marion
- Alexander McDougall
- Lachlan McIntosh
- James Monroe
- Richard Montgomery
- Daniel Morgan
- Jonathan Moulton
- John Paterson
- Benjamin Pierce
- Israel Putnam
- Philip Schuyler
- John Stark
- John Sullivan
- John Thomas
- James Mitchell Varnum
- Artemas Ward
- George Washington
- David Wooster
Americans ( Loyalists and Patriots ) from the Borderland
- Daniel Boone
- Daniel Brodhead
- George Rogers Clark
- William Crawford
- Simon Girty
- Edward Hand
American patriotic politician and writer
- John Adams
- Samuel Adams
- Benjamin Franklin
- John Hancock
- Patrick Henry
- Thomas Jefferson
- Filippo Mazzei (aka Philip Mazzei )
- Robert Morris
- Thomas Paine
American loyalists
- Benedict Arnold
- Joseph Galloway
- Thomas Hutchinson
- John Wentworth
British and Loyalist leaders
Government Official
- George III. (United Kingdom)
- Frederick North
- George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville
Commander in Chief in North America
- Thomas Gage
- William Howe
- Henry Clinton
- Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester
- John Campbell ( of Strachur )
Navy commander
- Marriott Arbuthnot
- John Byron
- Thomas Graves
- Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood
- Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe
- George Brydges Rodney
Other military commanders
- Benedict Arnold
- John Burgoyne
- Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
- Henry Hamilton
- Francis Rawdon -Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings
- Banastre Tarleton
French leader
- Comte d' Estaing ( Admiral )
- Comte de Grasse ( Admiral )
- Marquis de Lafayette (officer of the Continental Army )
- Pierre -Charles L' Enfant ( army officer )
- Jacques- Donatien Le Ray ( Diplomat )
- Louis XVI. (King)
- Jean -Baptiste- Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau ( commander of the French army in America)
- Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes ( Foreign Affairs)
- Karl Moor ( Commander in Chief )
International guide on the side of American Patriots
- Johann de Kalb
- Tadeusz Kościuszko
- Francisco de Miranda
- Casimir Pulaski ( Casimir Pulaski in English )
- Friedrich von Steuben
- John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
Indian leaders
- Joseph Brant ( Mohawk )
- Blue Jacket ( Shawnee )
- Cornplanter ( Seneca )
- Cornstalk ( Shawnee )
- Dragging Canoe ( Cherokee / Chickamauga )
- Dunquat ( the Wyandot " Half - King " )
- Guyasuta ( Seneca )
- Red Jacket ( Seneca )
- White Eyes ( Lenape )
- Captain Pipe ( Lenape )
- Buckongahelas ( Lenape )
Women
- Abigail Adams
- Molly Brant ( Mohawk )
- Margaret Corbin
- Jane McCrea
- " Molly Pitcher "
- Betsy Ross
- Deborah Sampson
- Nancy Ward ( Cherokee )
- Mercy Otis Warren
- Phyllis Wheatley ( African- American poet )
- American Revolution
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