| People/Biographies - Revolutionary War Biographies Links to almost two-hundred websites for biographies of patriots, 'founding fathers,' women, native Americans, and British leaders - - all involved in the American Revolution.
| - Ethan Allen http://www.uvm.edu/~vhnet/hertour/eallen/eahistory.html
- Ethan Allen (1738-1789), the folk hero of Vermont, was an unusually flamboyant farmer-turned statesman from Connecticut. Ethan was the guiding spirit in the taking of Fort Ticonderoga, the first Crown property to fall to America and the source of the cannon that allowed George Washington to drive the British from Boston.
- Margaret Cochran Corbin http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/corbin.html
- Margaret Cochran Corbin fought alongside her husband in the American Revolutionary War and was the first woman to receive pension from the United States government as a disabled soldier. She was born Nov. 12, 1751 near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., orphaned at the age of five and was raised by relatives. When she was twenty-one she married John Corbin.
- Paul Revere http://www.paulreverehouse.org/paul.html
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem. Paul Revere's Ride, written in 1860 and published in 1861 in the Atlantic Monthly, transformed Paul Revere from a relatively obscure, although locally known, figure in American history into a national folk hero. As a result, most people know him only for his famous ride to Lexington on the night of April 18-19, 1775. Revere's life, however, was a long and productive one, involving industry, politics, and community service.
- Nathan Hale http://www.seanet.com/Users/pamur/nhale.html
- Nathan Hale was a sober, serious, young man who was extremely well educated for his day.
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