Patrick Henry introduced three resolutions to the Second Virginia Convention when he delivered his famous “Liberty or Death” ...

After the “shot heard round the world” started the Revolutionary War, Williamsburg found itself on the threshold of its own “first shot” and only the coolest heads and calmest spirits ...

As Americans commemorate the 250th anniversary, there’s a growing push to reflect on how they remember the Revolution and not just through a militaristic lens.

Because of extensive settlement and cultivation, maroonage in Virginia and the northern ... to send a detachment of militia after them. During the Revolutionary War, service with the British ...

Though a Revolutionary War veteran, he could not vote for representatives ... When Flora enlisted, all men ages 16 to 60 were required to join the Virginia militia, but he and many other free ...

NEW KENT — Nearly two-and-a-half centuries after providing critical intelligence that helped the United States clinch victory in the Revolutionary War ... the Virginia Society Children of ...

and that whites could get exemption from military service by substituting a slave. In his memoirs, U.S. Navy Commodore James Barron, who served as a captain in the Virginia navy during the war ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - Archaeologists in Virginia have uncovered what is believed to be the remains of a military barracks from the Revolutionary War, including chimney bricks and musket balls ...

A new set of stamps honors five pivotal American Revolution battlefields across the Northeast as the US prepares for its ...