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Sep 15, 2022 · The graphic below outlines the force structure created by the Third Virginia Convention in August 1775 and identifies the district and county or counties where companies formed, unit commanders, and where and when the companies assembled, served or operated in 1775. The initial intent of this research was to identify the regular companies that ...
- British Raids, 1779–1781
- Lafayette's March to Richmond
- Cornwallis vs. Lafayette
- Significance
- Bibliography
Virginia was spared any further military action east of the mountains during the three years following Dunmore's departure. The state supported the 1776 defense of Charleston, South Carolina, but sent most of its Continentals north to fight in George Washington's main army. Then, on 4 December 1779, the Continental Congress (at Washington's suggest...
The inability of the French Rhode Island squadron to reach Virginia, combined with Phillips's expedition, altered the nature of Lafayette's expedition. Instead of waiting for transports, he moved overland with the mission of keeping the British from interfering with the southern army's lines of communications. In Baltimore Lafayette borrowed £2,000...
British strategy in Virginia failed in one of its main objectives: to help Cornwallis hold the Carolinas and Georgia. In complete defiance of Clinton's instructions to make the security of South Carolinaand Georgia his primary mission, Cornwallis had chosen to invade Virginia, leaving Rawdon to try and keep Greene at bay. After assuming command at ...
Governor Thomas Nelson summarized the impact of the war's Virginia campaigns in a letter he sent from Richmond to Washington on 27 July 1781. He wrote that they (the campaigns) "have made Whigs of Tories." By this, Nelson meant that each appearance by the Crown's forces prompted Loyalists to reveal themselves; and each time, when the British left, ...
Clark, William Bell, et al., eds. Naval Documents of the American Revolution. 11 vols. to date. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1964–. Cometti, Elizabeth. "Depredations in Virginia During the Revolution." In The Old Dominion: Essays for Thomas Perkins Abernathy. Edited by Darret B. Rutman. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1964...
Mar 30, 2018 · Frontier and Imperial Virginia 1730-1763. March 30, 2018 R.G.Zimermann. We return to Late Colonial history with Frontier and Imperial Virginia 1730-1763 that ends with the conclusion of the French and Indian War. “In the Absence of Towns” looks at the frontier of piedmont Southside Virginia. “Gentry and Commonfolk” consider the class ...
The Story of Virginia: Highlights from the Virginia Museum of History & Culture. The Story of Virginia tells a fascinating story, sharing more than four hundred evocative objects from the Virginia Museum of History & Culture. The Commonwealth is not merely a chapter of U.S. history; it is at the epicenter of its most pivotal moments.
The colony prospered. Tobacco—grown by indentured servants and enslaved Africans—sustained the economy. The first popularly elected legislative body in the New World was established. Following the failed Indian uprising in 1622 and on orders from London, the native peoples were “removed” and reduced in number to 3,000 by a “War of Extermination.” During the next hundred years, the ...
They are often misidentified as militia and are glossed over in most histories, which reflects their short existence and the limited information in the surviving record. Just three of the companies are listed in E.M. Sanchez-Saavedra’s A Guide to Virginia Military Organizations in the American Revolution, 1774-1783.
PO Box 751, Winchester, Virginia 22604 www.FIWF.org Volume 16, Issue 4, Fall 2021. Notes from the President By David Grosso. “Preserving and Interpreting the Colonial History of Virginia’s Frontier”. We are surrounded by forgotten history - its people and their stories. In the late 1700’s, the small village of Marlboro Virginia was a ...
