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People from Virginia who fought in units on the British side are categorized under Category:Loyalists in the American Revolution. People from Virginia who fought in the Continental Army are listed in Category:Continental Army officers or Category:Continental Army soldiers. Some soldiers served in the Continental Army and the Virginia militia ...
An 1851 portrait of Patrick Henry's speech on the Virginia Resolves. The history of Virginia in the American Revolution begins with the role the Colony of Virginia played in early dissent against the British government and culminates with the defeat of General Cornwallis by the allied forces at the Siege of Yorktown in 1781, an event that signaled the effective military end to the conflict.
This does not include officers born in Virginia who served in the regiments of other states. Officers are categorized under the state from which they served, not their place of birth. Virginia militiamen are located in Category:Virginia militiamen in the American Revolution rather than this category. However, officers who held rank in both the ...
This category includes people associated with Virginia during the American Revolution. People in this category should not also be placed in Category:Virginia colonial people, unless they were notable before the Revolutionary era (i.e. before about 1765).
Colonel William Preston (December 25, 1729 – June 28, 1783) was an Irish-born American military officer, planter and politician who founded a political dynasty. [1] [2] After service in the French and Indian War, Preston served five years in the House of Burgesses before becoming one of the fifteen signatories of the Fincastle Resolutions, then a colonel in the Virginia militia during the ...
American Military History (Routledge, 2016), Ch 1. Anderson, Fred. The War That Made America a Short History of the French and Indian War (2006) online; Anderson, Fred. "A People's Army: Provincial Military Service in Massachusetts during the Seven Years' War." William and Mary Quarterly (1983) 40#4: 500-527 online. Beattie, Daniel J. (1986).