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Kennesaw Mountain NBP Ordnance Rifle Restoration

Kennesaw Mountain NBP Ordnance Rifle Restoration

At Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, $8,243 in Eastern National (the parent of America’s National Parks) donations funded interpretive programming costs. The park purchased two replacement wayside panels and restored an original, 3-inch ordnance rifle, or...

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Foreign-Born Patriots of the American Revolution

Foreign-Born Patriots of the 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...

James Lafayette – Stories of the American Revolution

James Lafayette – Stories of the 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 spirit. That...

Colonel Tye and the Black Brigade

Colonel Tye and the Black Brigade

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...

Colonel Tye and the Black Brigade

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...

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The Oneida at the Battle of Barren Hill

The Oneida at the Battle of Barren Hill

“The Oneidas and Tuscaroras have a particular claim to attention and kindness for their perseverance and fidelity.” –George Washington to General Philip Schuyler Tewahangarahken (Han Yerry Doxtader) was a formidable Oneida war chief of the patriot-allied Oneida at...