How allies have helped the US gain independence, defend freedom and keep the peace – even as the US did the same for our friends
Make Canada angry. Make Mexico angry. Make the members of NATO angry. During the first few weeks of the second Trump ...
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Many Virginia soldiers saw their first action in North Carolina. Their ‘loss’ at Guilford Court House actually led toward victory at Yorktown.
Lord Cornwallis overcame three lines of Patriots, including thousands of Virginians, on the northern North Carolina ...
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The hero of the Battle of Great Bridge was a sentry who took on an entire British platoon. He was also a free Black man.
History remembers Flora as the hero of the Battle of Great Bridge. A sentry facing an onslaught of volleys, he fired multiple ...
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Yorktown Battlefield
With so many spots devoted to Colonial and Revolutionary history in the Williamsburg area, what makes Yorktown Battlefield so special? For starters, it's the site of the 1781 siege and surrender ...
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13 Battlefields That Changed the Course of History
Yorktown (1781) One last nail in Britain’s coffin of its colonial ambitions in the New World was struck when Britain lost the Battle of Yorktown in the American Revolutionary War.