Virginia Independent Frontier Companies

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Frontier, Historiography, The War Years (1775-1783) March 18, 2021 March 15, 2021

Virginia’s Independent Frontier Companies, Part 2 of 2

by Gabriel Neville

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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Frontier, Historiography, The War Years (1775-1783) March 17, 2021 September 3, 2021

Virginia’s Independent Frontier Companies, Part 1 of 2

by Gabriel Neville

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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1. John Fitzhugh Millar The American Invasion of Canada

Benedict Arnold could see in the summer of 1774 that when a war broke out the British could simply send troops down Lake Champlain from Canada and clamp a lid…
2. Darren Sharrocks The American Invasion of Canada

Good article and very interesting but the spelling and grammar needs correcting.
3. William Cooke The American Invasion of Canada

It may have been more appropriate to use the spelling Canadien to refer to the French-speaking inhabitants of the Province of Quebec during the Revolutionary War.