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"Manufactured History": Re-Fighting the Battle of Point Pleasant, 1997 article about the historical debate over whether the Battle of Point Pleasant should be considered a battle of the American Revolutionary War. "The Battle Song of the Great Kanawha", online exhibit from the Blue Ridge Institute about a ballad which recounted the battle.
On December 15, 1774, patriots led by John Sullivan again raided the fort, this time seizing numerous cannons, later used in the pivotal Battle of Bunker Hill. The incident is significant as one of the first overt acts of the American Revolutionary War [1] and the only battle to take place in the state of New Hampshire. [2]
Lord Dunmore's War, also known as Dunmore's War, was a brief conflict in fall 1774 between the British Colony of Virginia and the Shawnee and Mingo in the trans-Appalachian region of the colony south of the Ohio River. Broadly, the war included events between May and October 1774.
American victory Battle of Gloucester: November 25, 1777: New Jersey: American victory Battle of White Marsh: December 5–8, 1777: Pennsylvania: American victory Battle of Matson's Ford: December 11, 1777: Pennsylvania: British victory Battle of Barbados: March 7, 1778: Barbados: British victory Battle of Quinton's Bridge: March 18, 1778: New ...
A minor controversial interpretation holds that the Battle of Point Pleasant on October 10, 1774, in what is now West Virginia was the initial military engagement of the Revolutionary War, and a 1908 United States Senate resolution designated it as such. However, few historians subscribe to this interpretation, even in West Virginia.
In 1774, tensions were high between the Native American nations of the Ohio valley and settlers from Pennsylvania and Virginia. Small attacks between them occurred, and rumors of open war spread. Along the Ohio River, two parties led by George Rogers Clark and Michael Cresap met on their way to Kentucky. In reaction to the rumors of war, they ...
Monday marks 80 years since the Battle of the Bulge, when the Nazi army made its last offensive push of World War II.. The battle was one of the costliest of the war, with the U.S. Army suffering ...
The Journals of Each Provincial Congress of Massachusetts in 1774 and 1775. Dutton and Wentworth, Printers to the state. OCLC 1571226. Raphael, Ray (2002). The First American Revolution: Before Lexington and Concord. New York: The New Press. ISBN 978-1-56584-815-3. OCLC 47623909. Richmond, Robert P. (1971). Powder Alarm 1774. Princeton, NJ ...