NEW KENT — Nearly two-and-a-half centuries after providing critical intelligence that helped the United States clinch victory ...
The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the ...
For enslaved Black Americans living through the Revolutionary War, freedom sometimes meant donning the red coat of the enemy.
Virginia and the Forging of a Nation” opens in conjunction with the 250th anniversary of Patrick Henry’s famous speech made ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...