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The term Black Patriots includes, but is not limited to, the 5,000 or more African Americans who served in the Continental Army and Patriot militias during the American Revolutionary War. [ 1 ] Their counterparts on the pro-British side were known as Black Loyalists , African Americans who sided with the British during the American revolution.
Black soldiers had been a part of the Continental Army since the first shots at Lexington and Concord in April 1775. The Black soldiers in those integrated militias served throughout the war. However, Black recruits were technically barred from military service in the Continental Army from November 12, 1775, until February 23, 1778. Even so ...
Of the 9,000 Black soldiers, 5,000 were combat-dedicated troops. [3] The average length of time in service for an African American soldier during the war was four and a half years (due to many serving for the whole eight-year duration), which was eight times longer than the average period for white soldiers.
It was the location of the Battle of Red Bank in the American Revolutionary War on October 22, 1777. Fort Mercer and its sister, Fort Mifflin in Pennsylvania, defended the river and prevented the British from using it for transportation. The forts successfully delayed the British, but in the end, they were both destroyed or abandoned.
He was the last living African American veteran of the Revolutionary War at the time and the oldest person buried in Elmwood Cemetery. [33] [34] His last known living descendant was Gertrude Robinson, his granddaughter, who died in Ohio in 1983. [35]
American Revolutionary War Prince Whipple (c. 1750–1796) was an African American slave and later freedman . He was a soldier and a bodyguard during the American Revolution under his slaveowner General William Whipple of the New Hampshire Militia who formally manumitted him in 1784.
Edward Hector (born about 1744) was an African American soldier who fought in the American Revolutionary War. Hector was one of three to five thousand people of color that fought for the cause of American independence.
Titus Cornelius, also known as Titus, Tye, and famously as Colonel Tye (c. 1753 – September 1780), was a slave of African descent in the Province of New Jersey who escaped from his master and fought as a Black Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War; he was known for his leadership and fighting skills.