People
GW George Washington
Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army
BF Benjamin Franklin
Colonial agent in London, American commissioner in Paris
JA John Adams
Massachusetts delegate to the Continental Congress and diplomat in Europe
TJ Thomas Jefferson
Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress, Governor of Virginia, and author of the Declaration of Independence
JJ John Jay
President of the Continental Congress
WH William Heath
Continental Army general
AL Arthur Lee
Colonial agent in London, American commissioner in Paris
AA Abigail Adams
Manager of the Adams family farm and adviser to John Adams
AH Alexander Hamilton
Aide-de-camp to George Washington and Continental Army officer
JM James Madison
Virginia legislator and Continental congressman
JH John Hancock
President of the Continental Congress
NG Nathanael Greene
Continental Army general
SH Samuel Huntington
President of the Continental Congress
JW Jonathan Williams, Jr.
Agent for American war supplies in France
Charles-Guillaume-Frédéric Dumas
Unofficial American agent at The Hague
SD Silas Deane
Commissioner to France
HL Henry Laurens
President of the Continental Congress
PS Philip Schuyler
Continental Army general and New York delegate to the Continental Congress
ML Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier Lafayette, marquis de
French major general in the Continental Army
BL Benjamin Lincoln
Continental Army general and Secretary at War
RM Robert Morris
Financier of the Revolution and Superintendent of Finance
GC George Clinton
Governor of New York and Continental Army general
HG Horatio Gates
Continental Army general
JT Jonathan Trumbull, Sr.
Governor of Connecticut
JS John Sullivan
Continental Army general
CV Charles Gravier Vergennes, comte de
French Foreign Minister
BH Benjamin Harrison
Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress
RL Robert R. Livingston
Secretary for Foreign Affairs and Chancellor of New York
HK Henry Knox
Chief of Artillery of the Continental Army
AM Alexander McDougall
Continental Army general
FS Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin Steuben, Baron von
Prussian officer and Continental Army general
WL William Livingston
Governor of New Jersey
WA William Alexander, Lord Stirling
Continental Army general
IP Israel Putnam
Continental Army general
JL James Lovell
Educator and Massachusetts delegate to the Continental Congress
RH Robert Howe
Continental Army general
TP Timothy Pickering
Adjutant General and Quartermaster General of the Continental Army
CR Comte de Rochambeau
Commander of the French expeditionary force
AW Anthony Wayne
Continental Army general
JW James Warren
President of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress and Continental Army paymaster general
EP Edmund Pendleton
President of the Virginia Convention and judge
BR Benjamin Rush
Physician and Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress
Edmund Jenings
American expatriate and revolutionary advocate in Europe
ER Edmund Randolph
Virginia delegate and state attorney general
William Maxwell
Continental Army general
JR Joseph Reed
Adjutant General of the Continental Army and President of Pennsylvania's executive council
MW Mercy Otis Warren
Writer and revolutionary activist