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“War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.”[1] The application of justice during the Revolutionary War deserves scrutiny. Historic records related to people condemned…
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In 1777, the third year of the American War for Independence, little had gone in the favor of the Patriots especially in the borderlands….
The settlers who chose to make their homes in the upper Ohio in the mid to late eighteenth century faced a wide variety of…
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The Fifth Virginia Convention convened in Williamsburg in May 1776 with a weighty agenda before it. The 169-year-old colony declared its independence from Britain…
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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…
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Taxation without representation has been the traditionally accepted cause of the American Revolution. Such an understanding of the Revolution, while valid, does not give…