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George Washington
George Washington was a Founding Father and the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. As commander of the Continental Army, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the American Revolutionary War against the British Empire. He is commonly known as the Father of His Country for his role in bringing about American independence.
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
French general and politician (1757–1834)
Tadeusz Kościuszko
Polish, Lithuanian and American military leader (1746–1817)
George Clinton
vice president of the United States from 1805 to 1812 (1739–1812)
Benedict Arnold
army officer who betrayed America to the British during the Revolutionary War (1740–1801)
Nathanael Greene
American general in the American Revolutionary War (1742-1786)
Henry Knox
American general and Secretary of War (1750–1806)

Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
Prussian officer and US Continental army general (1730-1794)
Horatio Gates
American general in the American Revolutionary War (1727–1806)
Thomas Mifflin
American politician (1744-1800)
Richard Montgomery
Irish-born soldier in the British Army, later in the American Continental Army (1738–1775)
Anthony Wayne
Continental Army general (1745-1796)

Charles Lee
British military diplomat and general of the Continental Army during the American War of Independence (1731-1782)
Arthur St. Clair
American soldier and politician (1737-1818)
Philip Schuyler
American politician and general (1733–1804)
John Sullivan
American general, politician and judge from New Hampshire (1740-1795)
Daniel Morgan
American pioneer, soldier, and politician (1736-1802)
Israel Putnam
American Revolutionary War general (1718–1790)
Christopher Gadsden
American soldier and politician (1724-1805)
Benjamin Lincoln
Continental Army general (1733–1810)
Artemas Ward
Continental Army general (1727-1800)

John Stark
American Revolutionary War general from New Hampshire
Charles Scott
governor of Kentucky from 1808 to 1812
Peter Muhlenberg
American politician (1746-1807)
William Alexander
Continental Army general (1726-1783)

Johann de Kalb
American general (1721-1780)
Edward Hand
American general (1744–1802)
John Armstrong
American civil engineer and soldier (1717–1795)
Hugh Mercer
Jacobite and General in the American Revolutionary War
Robert Howe
Continental Army general from North Carolina

William Moultrie
American politician
William Irvine
Irish-American physician, soldier and politician from Pennsylvania
James Clinton
American continental army general (1736-1812)

William Heath
American politician (1737-1814)
Lachlan McIntosh
American general (1725–1806)
David Wooster
General of the Continental Army

Charles Armand Tuffin, marquis de la Rouerie
French cavalry officer
Joseph Spencer
American lawyer, soldier, and politician (1714-1789)
Thomas Conway
American general
John Thomas
American doctor and soldier from Massachusetts
Alexander McDougall
politician, privateer and Continental Army general (1731-1786)
Jethro Sumner
American Continental Army officer (c1733–c1785)
Louis Lebègue Duportail
American general (1743–1802)
James Moore
Continental Army general, born 1737
Joseph Neville
American politician (1733-1819)
William Smallwood
American politician (1732-1792)
Francis Nash
American general
Daniel Brodhead IV
American general 1736-1809
William Maxwell
Brigadier general in the Continental Army
Rufus Putnam
American military officer (1738-1824) who fought during the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War
James Hogun
Irish-American general (d1781)
Enoch Poor
American general (1736–1780)
Moses Hazen
American general