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Coat of Arms of Beverley Robinson. Robinson was born to the First Families of Virginia in Middlesex County in the Colony of Virginia on 11 January 1721. A distant relative was bishop John Robinson, [2] and an uncle Christopher Robinson was on the Governor's Council for the Colony of Virginia, as was this man's father John Robinson.
Posing as a deserter, Gray entered the service of Colonel Beverly Robinson, a Tory intelligence officer, and became Robinson's courier. As a result, the contents of each of Robinson's dispatches were read by the Americans before their delivery.
The Loyal American Regiment was raised in mid-March 1777 by wealthy loyalist Beverley Robinson. Robinson, a childhood friend of George Washington, commanded the regiment until it was disbanded at the end of the war in 1783. Several of Beverley Robinson's sons were officers in the regiment, including Frederick Philipse Robinson.
Fled to avoid being forced by rebels to fight against the king p. Sgt Major eventually Colonel. Kept a diary for the revolutionary war which is in the New Brunswick Museum. For his service he was awarded land in what became St. John New Brunswick. First settler in New Brunswick. Car ferry named after him and the downtown development COL.
Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson, GCB (September 1763 – 1 January 1852) was a soldier who fought for Britain during the American War of Independence.His father, Colonel Beverley Robinson, was a Virginian who moved to New York, marrying a wealthy heiress of the Philipse family with Dutch and Bohemian [1] ancestry, Susanna Philipse.
A U.S. Army intelligence analyst on Tuesday pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to sell military secrets to China, the Department of Justice said. Korbein Schultz was charged in March with ...
Location of Groton, Connecticut. The Battle of Groton Heights (also known as the Battle of Fort Griswold, and occasionally called the Fort Griswold massacre) was a battle of the American Revolutionary War fought on September 6, 1781 between a small Connecticut militia force led by Lieutenant Colonel William Ledyard and the more numerous British forces led by Brigadier General Benedict Arnold ...
A former North Korean colonel has admitted he was asked to assassinate a defector who had fled to the South.. In a BBC interview with Kim Kuk-Song, a colonel who spent 30 years working in North ...