Tag: Andrew Lewis

Posted on March 17, 2021September 3, 2021

Virginia’s Independent Frontier Companies, Part 1 of 2

When the American Revolution began, the Virginia Colony faced not one military-territorial contest, but four. Its ousted Royal governor, Lord Dunmore, was in the Chesapeake actively plotting a forcible return to power. A longstanding dispute with Pennsylvania over the headwaters of the Ohio had turned violent. A formal peace with the Shawnee on the northwest […]

by Gabriel Neville

Posted on September 28, 2015August 28, 2016

The Neglected Andrew Lewis

From the time that Congress adopted the Continental Army on June 14, 1775, the army was a work in progress. Such things as the organizing of logistics, tables of organization, articles of war or the appointment of general officers were on a trial basis. States had control in some areas, but in the area of […]

by Jeff Dacus