[PAR35]

Daniel Morgan - the three pivotal battles of the war were Trenton (Washington) Cowpens (Morgan) and Saratoga (Freeman’s Farm - Morgan and Bemis Heights - Morgan)

[RooRoobird20]

There is no one except George Washington who fits the description, no one who could even come close. This is not just an “ easy” answer, it’s the vety obvious truth. He is the Father of Our Country in every possible way.

[mjp]

My ancestor, Isham Dansby died in South Carolina fighting for independence

[MomwithHope]

I would say John Adams.

[broken_arrow1]

Washington made it happen.

[pepsi_junkie]

Probably Washington but I'll make the case for Franklin. Franklin was a common man who raised himself to become a successful entrepreneur, inventor, and philanthropist before setting his sights on politics, Franklin embodied the new kind of future for the self made man that the colonies offered to those with eyes to see.

Franklin fancied himself a loyalist until fairly late in the process. However his release of private letters from the Mass. Governor (who had disdain for the colonists) in an attempt to engineer a scapegoat for the bitterness the colonists felt towards the crown backfired, sealing his fate in Britain. Called before the King's privy council, he was skewered and humiliated publicly and as he left the room he was said to have whispered to his accuser "I'll make your King a little man for this!".

It gives me chills to imagine the rage in that muttering for it is known fact that from that moment he was a fierce revolutionary. Once he turned his genius level intellect to the problem of independence he became truly indispensable. He was crucial towards securing French support for the war and was one of the most influential forces in crafting the Declaration, the Constitution, and the Peace treaty with Britain. In fact, in sweet irony, when he came to sign the peace treaty with Britain making the US independent he intentionally wore the same suit he'd worn that long past day when he'd been humiliated before the King's privy council council. You just have to love a man with that sort of decisiveness, iron will, and subtlety.

[cornfedcowboy]

I know one very helpful warrior was General John DeKalb. He wasn’t even living in the states until the war started. I think he was trained in the French military. Born inAustria.

[clyde260]

Hands down: Col. John Glover - Battle of Pell’s Point

[Fiji Hill]

Captain General Bernardo Vicente de Gálvez y Madrid, the governor of Louisiana, is probably not a household name in the US, but he played a vital role in the War of the American Revolution. Spanish forces under his command drove the British out of Louisiana and captured Mobile in 1780. In 1781, his troops won the decisive Battle of Pensacola, which drove the British out of Florida and eliminated a potential British threat to the the southern flank of the Americans fighting to the north.

Galveston, Texas and Galvez, La. are named in honor of Gálvez.

[Jimmy Valentine]

General Herkimer who held off the British under St. Leger at Oriskeny. That left Burgoyne alone to fight Saratoga.