People Involved in The American Revolution
- John Adams, revolutionary, later President
- Samuel Adams, revolutionary
- Crispus Attucks, first casualty of the war
- John Glover (general), revolutionary general
- John Hancock
- James Otis
- Robert Treat Paine
- William Prescott
- Paul Revere, revolutionary
- Deborah Sampson, Woman soldier
- Dr.Joseph Warren, revolutionary
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