American Revolution

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. A soldier of the American Revolution whose troops helped capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British (10)
  2. 4. United States editor (4)
  3. 5. A town in central Arizona (8)
  4. 6. A pitched battle in which American revolutionary troops captured Fort ___ from the British (11)
  5. 10. Something offered to an adversary in the hope of obtaining peace (11)
  6. 11. English poet and literary critic (6)
  7. 12. American Revolutionary leader and pamphleteer who supported the American colonist's fight (11)
  8. 15. British soldier (plural) (8)
  9. 16. A person who is ___ to their allegiance (plural) (9)

Down

  1. 1. The first important battle of the American War of Independence which was fought at Breed's ___ (10)
  2. 3. Sound practical judgment (11)
  3. 7. A formal public statement (11)
  4. 8. A war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy (8)
  5. 9. Someone who betrays his country by committing treason (7)
  6. 13. English general during World War II (10)
  7. 14. One who loves and defends his or her country (plural) (8)