Revolutionary War veteran
Independence fighter, retired
A Revolutionary War veteran is a person who served in the military forces during the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), the conflict in which the American colonies won independence from Britain.
The phrase appears most often in historical contexts—land grants, pension records, genealogy: His great-great-grandfather was a Revolutionary War veteran who fought at Yorktown.
- militiamanArmed civilian defender
- colonial independenceFreedom from imperial rule
- pensionerRetired payment recipient
- pension recordsDocumentation of retirement benefits
- founding fathersMale originators of institutions
infantryman · Continental Army · memoirist · Treaty of Paris · statesman · officer · quartermaster · Boston Tea Party · rifleman · old soldier · grave markers · unmarked grave · family history · land grant · Valley Forge · historian · patriot · tricorn hat
Revolutionary War veteranTory
British right-wing partisan
Revolutionary War veterancivilian
Non-military person
non-combatant · draft evader · conscientious objector · draft dodger
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