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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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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 ...
The Viking age is welcoming a new kind of hero: women
New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place ...
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Battle of Agincourt: 5 Facts About One of France’s Biggest Defeats
A major episode of the Hundred Years' War, the Battle of Agincourt pitted French troops against the army of King Henry V of ...
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Chemin des Dames: The Battle that Triggered the Mutinies of 1917
The Chemin des Dames is a ridge road in northern France that was the site of several major battles during World War I, most ...