Conflict & War
The New Dominion: Virginia’s Bounty Land
by Gabriel NevilleThere is a fine line between courage and stupidity. Eight men congregated at Smithfield Plantation in southwest Virginia on April 7, 1774, prepared for...
READ MOREThere is a fine line between courage and stupidity. Eight men congregated at Smithfield Plantation in southwest Virginia on April 7, 1774, prepared for...
READ MOREOn this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews Stuart Lillie, vice president of Public History at Fort Ticonderoga, on their new exhibit on Henry...
READ MOREThe Continental Congress directed the organization of the Maryland and Virginia Rifle Regiment (Rawlings’ regiment) in resolutions dated June 17 and 27, 1776.[1] The...
READ MORELocated far enough away from American-controlled Kentucky but enough close to the British-allied Native Americans in the Western Great Lakes region, Fort Detroit became...
READ MORETo the extent that historians give Thomas Paine credit for playing a significant role in the American Revolutionary Cause, it was his rousing call...
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