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It is important to remember that several people contributed to the events surrounding the American Revolution. Many think that there were a minimum of 100 people who if they had not been born, we may still be subjects of the British Crown. Many of these individuals are not seen in the same vein as people like George Washington or Thomas Jefferson, but those two would be the first to admit that the success of the "great experiment" was the result of thousands of people who laid their life on the line for a specific purpose. Freedom.
Here is a short list of those "thousands". We have attempted to include those from the entire spectrum of Americans at that time. As we create them, clicking on the portraits below will lead to the persons biography page.


John Adams (10/30/1735 - 7/4/1826)	George Washington (2/22/1732 - 12/14/1799)	Thomas Jefferson (4/13/1743 - 7/4/1826)	James Madison (3/16/1751 - 6/28/1836)	James Monroe (4/28/1758 - 7/4/1831)	Benjamin Franklin (1/17/1706 - 4/17/1790)


Samuel Adams (9/27/1722 - 10/2/1803)	John Hancock (1/12/1737 - 10/8/1793)	Patrick Henry (5/29/1736 - 6/6/1799)	Thomas Paine (1/29/1737 - 6/8/1809)	Paul Revere (1/1/1735 - 5/10/1818)	Richard Henry Lee (1/20/1732 - 6/19/1794)


John Dickinson (11/8/1732 - 2/14/1808)	Benedict Arnold (1/14/1741 - 6/14/1801)	John Paul Jones (7/6/1747 - 7/18/1792)	Nathanael Greene (8/7/1742 - 6/19/1786)	John Jay (12/12/1745 - 5/17/29)	Henry Knox (7/25/1750 - 10/25/1806)


William Prescott (2/20/1726 - 10/13/1795)	Dr. Joseph Warren (5/30/1741 - 6/17/1775)	Francis Lightfoot Lee (10/14/1734 - 1/11/1797)	Ethan Allen (1/10/1738 - 2/12/1789)	James Wilson (9/14/1742 - 8/28/1798)	Benjamin Rush (12/24/1745 - 4/19/1813)


John Quincy Adams (7/11/1767 - 2/23/1848)

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