Heroes of the American Revolution

By Mary Hertz Scarbrough

George Washington, Paul Revere, and Thomas Jefferson are remembered as heroes of the American Revolution, but they were only a few of many men and women who risked their lives for independence. Read more about the heroes, both American and European, who were key to the colonists’ success in the American Revolution.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Capstone Young Readers
• Release date: Dec 21, 2015
• ISBN: 9781515729952

Mary Hertz Scarbrough

Mary Hertz Scarbrough has written more than two dozen fiction and nonfiction books for young readers. Her first book for Capstone Press, Heroes of the American Revolution, was a Junior Library Guild Selection. She practiced law for 10 years and has taught writing and constitutional law. She loves to unearth little-known facts and particularly enjoys researching and writing about history and other social studies topics. She lives in Brookings, South Dakota.

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - Unrest in the Colonies

Chapter 2 - Heroes with Words

Chapter 3 - Battlefield Heroes

Chapter 4 - Heroes From Other Lands

Chapter 5 - America’s First Spies

Glossary

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Internet Sites

Index

Direct quotations appear on the following pages:

Page 12, from Common Sense, by Thomas Paine (Philadelphia: W. and T. Bradford, 1776.)

Page 21, from Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution: Selected Letters and Papers, 1776–1790, ed. by Stanley J. Idzerda (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1977.)

CHAPTER 1

Unrest in the Colonies

The American Revolution (1775–1783) was a war of rebellion. Before the war, Great Britain controlled the 13 colonies. The colonists fought this control. Some people fought with weapons, while others fought with words. Heroes stepped forward. Colonists wrote or spoke out against British rule in public. They organized protests against Great Britain. They put their lives on the line serving in the Continental army.

The war started over debt and who should pay it. The recent French and Indian War (1754–1763)