America 250, American Revolution
After the Seven Years War, King George III issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, restricting colonists from encroaching on Native American lands west of Appalachia. The decree was largely ignored. Then, in 1774, a land speculator coerced the Cherokee to part with 20...
America 250, American Revolution
In September 1848, 86-year-old Mary Hicks appeared before a Justice of the Peace. She was applying for a widow’s pension. Her deceased husband, Micajah Hicks, served in the 1st Regiment of the NC line from 1779 through 1782. After the American army surrendered in...
America 250, American Revolution
Marquis de Lafayette In 1777, the Marquis de Lafayette, a 19-year-old French nobleman, sailed across the ocean to help America win its independence. Arriving on June 13, Lafayette was made a major general in the Continental Army, serving under his idol, George...
America 250, American Revolution
Washington did not really outfight the British. He simply out-spied us – British Intelligence Officer. By the summer of 1781, simply sustaining the Continental Army proved challenging. Earlier winter encampments and intense fighting devastated the patriot...
America 250, American Revolution
Cornelis Titus fled enslavement when he was 22 and joined the British Army as part of the Ethiopian Regiment, an all-Black unit whose rallying cry was “Liberty to Slaves.” Poorly trained, the unit was slaughtered in its second battle. Titus, one of the unit’s few...
