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WWI soldier's grave gets Star of David headstone over a century after his death
For generations, Army Pvt. David Moser's grave was marked by an erroneous headstone with a Latin cross, not a Star of David.
As the Revolutionary War began, those in Williamsburg soon took action
After the “shot heard round the world” started the Revolutionary War, Williamsburg found itself on the threshold of its own “first shot” and only the coolest heads and calmest spirits ...
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The story of a Black Revolutionary War hero who took on an entire British platoon lives on
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 ...
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250 years later, the Revolutionary War still holds lessons for today
As Americans commemorate the 250th anniversary, there’s a growing push to reflect on how they remember the Revolution and not just through a militaristic lens.
Towns across the USA share a historic name. This man visited them all.
Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, reenact the start of the American Revolution every year, but this year's festivities ...
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Revolutionary War spy who was also a slave will get statue in Virginia
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 ...
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Old broadsides and receipts offer hints to America's Black Revolutionary War soldiers
Their stories were not well preserved in art or textbooks, yet recent scholarship in Concord and Lexington aims to uncover ...
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Revolutionary War spy who was also a slave will get statue in New Kent on Saturday
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 ...
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April marks 250th anniversary of American Revolutionary War
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, to use a phrase coined by Ralph ...