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

The granite monument honors James Armistead Lafayette, who is believed to have been a double agent during the Revolutionary ...

NEW KENT — Nearly two-and-a-half centuries after providing critical intelligence that helped the United States clinch victory ...

Freedom was very important to Patrick Henry, who lived in a time with a lot of self-governance and liked it. Unfortunately, ...

Because of extensive settlement and cultivation, maroonage in Virginia and the northern ... to send a detachment of militia after them. During the Revolutionary War, service with the British ...

and that whites could get exemption from military service by substituting a slave. In his memoirs, U.S. Navy Commodore James Barron, who served as a captain in the Virginia navy during the war ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - 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 ...

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

LEXINGTON — On April 19, 1775, the Revolutionary ... from thousands of colonial militia who were joining the fight from all over. There was no question that the war had begun.