New exhibit will open in Salem to honor critical standoff with British troops that led to the Revolution
Salem on the Brink of Revolution” will honor the militia members and residents, who blocked access over the North River ...
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The hero of the Battle of Great Bridge was a sentry who took on an entire British platoon. He was also a free Black man.
History remembers Flora as the hero of the Battle of Great Bridge. A sentry facing an onslaught of volleys, he fired multiple ...
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You Can Buy a Rare Letter by George Washington Written at a Crucial Turning Point in the Revolutionary War
A rare letter from George Washington expressing his faith in the American Revolution—even after a major strategic setback in ...
1777 George Washington letter written in Morristown is for sale. Asking price: $150,000
After a British attack on Danbury, Connecticut, Washington wrote the loss of supplies was trivial compared to the resistance ...
Francis Marion's troops used this South Carolina farm for shelter. History nearly forgot it.
Graham's Farm in Lake City was a stop for Francis Marion’s troops during the Revolutionary War. A festival, reenactment bring ...
A bloody chapter of the Revolution ended at this historic SC site. Now it will be preserved.
Burch's Mill on the Pee Dee River, where Gen. Francis Marion's South Carolina militia and Micajah Ganey's British loyalists signed a treaty, will be protected.
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History with ‘Hud’: Remembering when British troops overtook Wilmington for months in 1781
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — Next week marks 244 years since Wilmington was overtaken by British troops during the final months of the Revolutionary ... and disrupt the American war effort.