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News Posted on March 29, 2022March 31, 2022

Under the Banner of War: Frontier Militia and Uncontrolled Violence

In 1777, the third year of the American War for Independence, little had gone in the favor of the Patriots especially in the borderlands. They controlled Fort Pitt and several other outposts, but they were far from the main fighting; the region was considered a backwater theater. British governor of Detroit Henry Hamilton issued a […]

by Timothy C. Hemmis

News Posted on March 18, 2021March 15, 2021

Virginia’s Independent Frontier Companies, Part 2 of 2

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 and proposed that Congress do the same. It adopted a new constitution and a Declaration of Rights that would immediately be the model for the Declaration of Independence and later provide […]

by Gabriel Neville