Revolutionary War Leaders
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John Burgoyne: Gentleman General
VIDEO | When General John Burgoyne took command of the British Army in Canada in 1777, he was confident of success. He had the command experience and...
Joseph Reed
Joseph Reed was a colonel and adjutant-general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. He was a trusted aide to General George...
Christopher Greene
A descendent of early New England settler Roger Williams and a third cousin of Continental Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene, Christopher Greene hailed from...
John Montagu
John Montagu was First Lord of the Admiralty during the Revolutionary War years.
Henry Rugeley
Colonel Henry Rugeley was a prominent South Carolina Tory who earned a commission in the British army after the siege of Charleston in 1780. While the...
Henry Clinton: The General who Lost America
VIDEO | For most of the Revolutionary War, General Henry Clinton was second-in-command of the British army and he had his own ideas about what...
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