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American Revolutionary War

Armed Forces United States Continental Army  → Commander-in-Chief  → Regional departments  → List of units Continental Navy Continental Marines State forces  → List of militia units  → Pennsylvania Navy  → Massachusetts State Navy British Empire List of British units France List of French units Related topics List of battles Military leadership

A great number of military leaders played a role in the American Revolutionary War.

Contents 1 United States 1.1 Continental Army 1.2 American Militia 1.3 Continental Navy 1.4 Frontier 1.5 International leaders allied with the American Patriots 2 British Empire 2.1 Government officials 3 British Army 3.1 Commanders in chief in North America 3.2 Other military officers 3.3 Rangers and Indian Department officials 4 French & Spanish leaders 5 Native Americans 6 References 7 Further reading

When the war began, the American colonists did not have a regular army (also known as a "standing army"). Each colony had traditionally provided for its own defenses through the use of local militia.

Seeking to coordinate military efforts, the Continental Congress established (on paper) a regular army—the Continental Army—in June 1775, and appointed George Washington as commander-in-chief. The development of the Continental Army was always a work in progress, and Washington reluctantly augmented the regular troops with militia throughout the war.

• Daniel Brodhead
• William Crawford
• Horatio Gates
• Edward Hand
• John Eager Howard
• Henry Knox
• Charles Lee
• Thomas Mifflin
• Israel Putnam
• John Morin Scott
• William Smallwood
• James Wilkinson

• John Cadwalader
• Nicholas Herkimer
• John Stark
• William Whipple

• John Paul Jones

• Daniel Boone
• George Rogers Clark

• Thomas Conway
• Johann de Kalb
• Tadeusz Kościuszko
• Francisco de Miranda
• Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette
• Kazimierz Pułaski
• Friedrich von Steuben

• King George III of Great Britain
• George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville
• Frederick North, Lord North

• Thomas Gage
• William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe
• Sir Henry Clinton
• Sir Guy Carleton

• Benedict Arnold
• John Burgoyne
• Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
• Simon Fraser of Lovat
• Simon Fraser of Balnian
• Henry Hamilton
• Banastre Tarleton
• Johann Rall

• William Caldwell
• Simon Girty

• Comte d'Estaing (admiral)
• Comte de Grasse (admiral)
• Marquis de Lafayette (Continental Army officer)
• Pierre-Charles L'Enfant (Army officer)
• Jacques-Donatien Le Ray (diplomat)
• Comte de Rochambeau (commander of French army in America)
• Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes (foreign minister)
• Bernardo de Gálvez (Commander-in-Chief of Spanish colonial forces)
• Matías de Gálvez y Gallardo (general)
• Francisco Saavedra de Sangronis (colonial official)
• Juan de Lángara (admiral)

• Joseph Brant (Mohawk)
• John Deseronto (Mohawk)

• Coanter (Seneca)
• Guyasuta (Seneca)
• Cornplanter (Seneca)
• Red Jacket (Seneca)
• Sayenqueraghta (Seneca)

• Dunquat (the Wyandot "Half-King")

• Dragging Canoe (Chickamauga Cherokee)

• Blue Jacket (Shawnee)
• Cornstalk (Shawnee)

• White Eyes (Lenape)
• Captain Pipe (Lenape)
• Buckongahelas (Lenape)

• Black, Jeremy. War for America: The Fight for Independence, 1775–1783. St. Martin's Press (New York) and Sutton Publishing (UK), 1991. ISBN 0-312-06713-5 (1991), ISBN 0-312-12346-9 (1994 paperback), ISBN 0-7509-2808-5 (2001 paperpack).
• Boatner, Mark Mayo, III. Encyclopedia of the American Revolution. New York: McKay, 1966; revised 1974. ISBN 0-8117-0578-1.

• Anderson, Troyer Steele. The Command of the Howe Brothers During the American Revolution. New York and London, 1936.
• Buchanan, John. The Road to Valley Forge: How Washington Built the Army That Won the Revolution. Wiley, 2004. ISBN 0-471-44156-2.
• Fischer, David Hackett. Washington's Crossing. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-19-517034-2. Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for History.
• Lengel, Edward G. General George Washington: A Military Life. New York: Random House, 2005. ISBN 1-4000-6081-8.
• McCullough, David. 1776. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. ISBN 0-7432-2671-2.