British & Germans
- John Burgoyne – British playwright, politician; general who lost the Battles of Saratoga
- Guy Carleton – Governor of Quebec; British commander-in-chief, 1782—83
- Henry Clinton – British general; commander-in-chief, 1778—82
- Charles Cornwallis – British general, surrendered with troops at Yorktown
- Carl Emil von Donop – German general; died at the Battle of Fort Mercer.
- Thomas Gage – British general, Royal Governor of MA, ordered troops to Concord
- William Howe – Commander-in-chief of British forces, 1775—78
- Wilhelm von Knyphausen – German general, served in America 1776 - 82
- Friedrich Adolf Riedesel – Hessian general in command of Germans during the Saratoga campaign
Continental Army, Militia & French
- William Alexander, Lord Stirling – Continental Army general — one of Washington’s best
- Benedict Arnold – Talented Continental Army general who defected to the British
- Horatio Gates – Continental Army general, won the Battles of Saratoga
- Henry Knox – Continental Army general, chief artillery officer, first Secretary of War
- Tadeusz Kosciuszko – Polish patriot, fought seven years in the American Revolution
- Marquis de Lafayette – French aristocrat, Continental Army officer, like a son to Washington
- Charles Lee – Continental Army general, formerly a British officer
- Richard Montgomery – Irish-born Continental Army general, formerly a British officer
- Daniel Morgan – Militia soldier, military tactician, Continental Army general
- Israel Putnam – Militia general, fought with distinction at the British at Bunker Hill
- comte de Rochambeau – Commander-in-chief of French forces
- Philip Schuyler – Continental Army general, U.S. Senator for NY
- Arthur St. Clair – Continental Army general, surrendered Fort Ticonderoga to the British
- Baron von Steuben – Continental Army general from Prussia, drilled the troops at Valley Forge
- John Sullivan – Continental Army general, Continental Congress delegate, NH governor
- George Washington – Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army; first President
- Anthony Wayne – Continental Army general, defeated the British at Stony Point
Greene, Nathanael
- Nathanael Greene – Continental Army general; key to winning the war in the South