Everything in this flashcard set.
- mercenary
- A person hired to fight for another country than their own
- salomon
- American financier and American Revolutionary War patriot who helped fund the army during
- washington
- The capital of the United States in the District of Columbia and a tourist mecca
- rendezvous
- A meeting planned at a certain time and place
- arnold
- English poet and literary critic
- desert
- Dry land with very little rain
- lafayette
- French soldier who served under George Washington in the American Revolution
- privateer
- A ___ owned warship commissioned to prey on the commercial shipping or warships of an enemy
- jones
- United States railroad engineer who died trying to stop his train from crashing into another train
- pacifist
- Someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes
- cornwallis
- Commander of the British forces in the American War of Independence
- bombard
- To cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile
- freeman
- A person who is not a serf or a slave
- republicanism
- The political orientation of those who hold that a ___ is the best form of government