The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the ...

Everyone knows how the redcoats clashed with patriots at Lexington and Concord in April 1775, sparking the American Revolution. Yet often forgotten is an incident that took place two days later and ...

Freedom was very important to Patrick Henry, who lived in a time with a lot of self-governance and liked it. Unfortunately, ...

A court appearance Monday solved one part of the mystery surrounding a Virginia man whose alleged talk of explosives landed him in a federal investigation: Russell Vane IV is alive. Vane, 42, who ...

Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount ...

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Before leading Virginia’s militia and becoming its first governor, Patrick Henry stood against British rule, including unjust ...

“The militia . . . is our ultimate safety,” said Patrick Henry during the Virginia ratifying convention. “We can have no security without it. . . . The great object is, that every man ...

As a young man, Flora joined the Patriot cause in 1775 and served as a private in the Virginia militia. History remembers him as the hero of the Battle of Great Bridge. A sentry facing an ...