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The most solemn of America’s national holidays was observed in towns, hamlets and cities throughout the North Country. TWO SERVICES HELD NEAR ELIZABETHTOWN ELIZABETHTOWN — American Legion Post 113 ...
The museum’s uncanny environment is the work of the Collings Foundation, a well-heeled nonprofit that is among the world’s ...
a group of young Patriots led by Major William Chronicle. The South Fork Boys fought alongside other Patriots against British Loyalists at the Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780, a turning point in the ...
The monument was a service project spearheaded by Sarah Terpenning, a sophomore at William & Mary and the ... significance,” Allen said. Revolutionary War spy who was also a slave will get ...
The life story of William “Billy” Flora, a Black man and celebrated Revolutionary War hero, illustrates the paradoxes of America’s founding. Flora was born in Portsmouth in 1755 to Mary ...
NEW KENT — Nearly two-and-a-half centuries after providing critical intelligence that helped the United States clinch victory in the Revolutionary War, an American patriot will finally have a ...
Much connecting evidence has been supplied by William J. Rotch and Mrs. Johnson Whiting of ... for he had served in that capacity with the land forces during the Revolutionary War. That his work was ...
The United States launched eight or nine invasions of Canada during the War of 1812, winning only one fruitless battle. The rest of the time, it got walloped. For example, General William Hull ...
SS Normandie (top, colourised) was known for her art deco interiors (above) Despite her heft, a revolutionary hydrodynamic hull and turbo ... to the horrors of world war two – much like art ...