America’s National Parks™ 250th Grant Program – History Happens Here 

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America’s National Parks™ has awarded a total of $250,000 to 11 National Park Service units through the America’s National Parks™ 250th Grant Program – History Happens Here to support the parks’ efforts in the upcoming celebrations for the 250th Anniversary of the...

A “Dark and Bloody” Path of Resistance: The Chickamauga Cherokee

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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...

Micajah Hicks, Agrippa Hull, and the Black Patriots of the Southern Theater

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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...

Foreign-Born Patriots of the American Revolution

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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...

James Lafayette – Stories of the American Revolution

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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...