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1 posted on 07/04/2017 2:32:11 PM PDT by Eagles Field
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The commanders at Cowpens and Kings Mountain who liberated the South from British control.


2 posted on 07/04/2017 2:37:04 PM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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Benjamin Franklin

He was essential via his diplomacy with France to have them supporting us with arms and sea power. He was also one of the intellects behind the revolution and the writing of Constitution.

He also had a great penchant for the ladies of The French Court. Apparently he was very popular at the court.


3 posted on 07/04/2017 2:37:18 PM PDT by cpdiii ( Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist. CONSTITUTUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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Not a specific person, but the Riflemen under command of Daniel Morgan.


4 posted on 07/04/2017 2:37:22 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Lock her up!)
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Crispus Attucks


5 posted on 07/04/2017 2:37:44 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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Mordecai Gist and Hyam Salomon to name just two. Most people have never heard of them.


6 posted on 07/04/2017 2:38:05 PM PDT by Fungi (Mucor roxii is not a rock band.)
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Two different questions there. Washington was clearly the most indispensable. In answer to your second question, Thomas Paine. His first tract really convinced people we needed a revolution, and his second gave the army the spirit to keep going at the most desperate time.


7 posted on 07/04/2017 2:38:41 PM PDT by Hugin (ithout Nationalism is a fraud.)
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One was General Francis (The Swamp Fox) Marion, who led the SC militia and on whom the movie The Patriot is very loosely based.


8 posted on 07/04/2017 2:38:55 PM PDT by apoxonu
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Benedict Arnold at Fort Stanwix, and both the first and second battles of Saratoga. His tactics are still studied in the world's military academies today.

Saratoga got the French off the fence and ready to fully back us. It gave credibility to the American fighting man.

It's unfortunate that we couldn't hang onto Arnold. His obsession with money did him in.

9 posted on 07/04/2017 2:39:14 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius available at Amazon.)
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Imo, and I’m not a deep studier of that war so I’m probably dead wrong but...

The unnamed on the patriot side that fought in that bloody and savage civil war within the revolutionary war in the backwoods of the southern colonies.

If the loyalist side had come out on top in that, the patriots would have been surrounded by Canadian types, north AND south.


10 posted on 07/04/2017 2:39:42 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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I know my answer is an easy out, but I’d say it was the farmer who put down his plow, picked up his rifle and fought for an idea.


12 posted on 07/04/2017 2:40:40 PM PDT by JimSEA
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The "unsung" were those knowledgeable and deeply religious citizen/patriots who became the "We, the People" of the written American Constitution's Preamble!

Can one just imagine the current population of America today ratifying and adopting that miraculous document known as The Constitution of the United States of America?

As John Adams noted, that Constitution was made for a "moral and virtuous people"--a people whose inner impulses motivated them toward ordered liberty and respect for the uncensored views of others.

13 posted on 07/04/2017 2:41:41 PM PDT by loveliberty2
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All of them!


14 posted on 07/04/2017 2:42:05 PM PDT by Thomas Truxtun
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General Nathanael Greene and Brigadier General Daniel Morgan!!! Guilford Court House and The Cow Pens!!!


15 posted on 07/04/2017 2:42:59 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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God.


16 posted on 07/04/2017 2:43:04 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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I don’t think any ‘unsung heroes’ are left to find after all these years!

Of course Virginia’s own George Washington was ‘The Indispensable Man’.


18 posted on 07/04/2017 2:44:59 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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a more interesting question is who were the most indispensable heroes of the post-revolution. after the uniting influence of the enemy was gone, people’s true colors came out.

not counting washington, of course.


19 posted on 07/04/2017 2:45:01 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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Considering the outcome was this Great Nation......
I would have to nominate......
ALL OF THEM!
22 posted on 07/04/2017 2:46:33 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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According to the History Channel, it must have been General Pickett


26 posted on 07/04/2017 2:50:37 PM PDT by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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Brian Williams. They parachuted him behind British lines at Yorktown.


28 posted on 07/04/2017 2:51:04 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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Dan Morgan


29 posted on 07/04/2017 2:51:50 PM PDT by bigmak007 (They who can't control their own passions, want to passionately control others.)
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