The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the ...

While we often overlook it these days, the Revolutionary War was a very hard conflict for the soldiers ... battles occurred in North Carolina and Virginia. The turncoat Benedict Arnold raided ...

For enslaved Black Americans living through the Revolutionary War, freedom sometimes meant donning the red coat of the enemy.

Stephen Seals portrays James Lafayette at Colonial Williamsburg and said that the new monument will serve as a reflection of ...

As the Revolutionary ... soldiers, despite the fact that they had fought side by side with their white counterparts at the battles of Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill. The Governor of Virginia ...

America 250 group is trying to locate graves of 20 soldiers On Tuesday, the Lawrence County commissioners heard from Rich ...

Archaeologists in Virginia have uncovered what is believed to be the remains of a military barracks from the Revolutionary War, including chimney bricks and musket balls indented with soldiers' teeth.

April 19 marks 250 years since the first gunfire of the American Revolution rang out at 5:30 a.m. northwest of Boston. It was ...

NEW KENT — Nearly two-and-a-half centuries after providing critical intelligence that helped the United States clinch victory in the Revolutionary War ... the Virginia Society Children of ...

Virginia and the Forging of a Nation” opens in conjunction with the 250th anniversary of Patrick Henry’s famous speech made ...

Finally, after 250 years the truth is shared by the oldest continuous running newspaper in the United states, The Hartford ...

Flora continued to serve throughout the Revolutionary War and during conflicts ... 60 were required to join the Virginia militia, but he and many other free Black soldiers continued to fight ...