The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the ...
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.
Stephen Seals portrays James Lafayette at Colonial Williamsburg and said that the new monument will serve as a reflection of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...