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As SC celebrates Carolina Day, the anniversary of Battle of Sullivan's Island, efforts are underway to raise awareness of ...
American colonists who aligned with the British lost their lands, their reputations and sometimes even their lives ...
During the war, there were the loyalists (Americans siding with the British) and the patriots, who were in favor of American independence. The two groups lived amongst each other, which heightened ...
Military victories were essential in helping America win its independence from Britain. Early successes gave the Patriots ...
While their images might not be immortalized on dollar bills or their stories ingrained into every high school syllabus, these lesser-known figures nonetheless played critical roles in the shaping of ...
Many crucial moments of the American Revolution, and the stuff of local lore, played out across geographic Long Island — present-day Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk.
He never did. On Sept. 1, 1780, Tye’s brigade raided the Colts Neck home of Capt. Joshua Huddy, who was every bit as feared by loyalists as Tye was by patriots.
The arrest of the German Unionists in Richmond recalls, what the country can never forget, the loyal and patriotic stand taken throughout the country during this revolution by our German fellow ...
Burch's Mill on the Pee Dee River, where Gen. Francis Marion's South Carolina militia and Micajah Ganey's British loyalists signed a treaty, will be protected.
While fighting in the American Revolution, Pinckney was captured and held prisoner by the British. He repeatedly refused British demands to defect to the Loyalist cause and remained incarcerated ...
Frontier and revolution. History professor Paul Musselwhite described the Upper Valley as a “very strange corner of the American Revolution.” The Upper Valley was considered a frontier, only recently ...
Tensions between militia and loyalists ran particularly high along the Bayshore. Bringing history back: Revolutionary War Bayshore ship capture story disappeared for 243 years, until now Murray ...