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 ...

Delivered 250 years ago, the famous oration marked the height of Henry's influence. But the politician also served in key ...

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 ...

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

Henry believed war with Britain was inevitable and punctuated his call for Virginia to establish an independent militia with his ... to overlook how fraught the Revolutionary period was.

Archaeologists in Colonial Williamsburg have discovered what they believe to be Revolutionary War barracks in the historical city located in Virginia. The finding came as officials with the ...

On April 19, 1775, Paul Revere and William Dawes rode from Boston to Lexington to alert the Minute Man — the colonial militia — that ... But the war would be long — John Adams had ...

On National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day, a new marker was placed on a family monument at Union Cemetery to honor Elizabeth (Dunkin) Porter – a woman whose sacrifice helped shape America’s ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Virginia War Memorial Foundation has announced a multi-year program dedicated to providing a venue ...