Cardinal News 250

While the American Revolution was going on, Virginians went to fight a different enemy, the Cherokee. “You have asked me for the ground that I walk upon,” one Cherokee lamented.

The new state government thought it would deal with military matters. Instead, it’s being forced to deal with questions about what freedom of religion means.

George Rogers Clark gets the historical credit for “the conquest of the Northwest,” as the land between the Alleghenies and the Mississippi was then called. It was Henry who authorized the military action as a secret mission on behalf of Virginia, not the United States.

John Saunders was a prominent figure in modern-day Virginia Beach until the revolution came. Here’s what happened to him afterward.

The initial General Assembly was elected in late summer 1776 and seated in October 1776.

“Virginians Like Us” takes 21 stories about the American Revolution and turns them into a graphic novel.

The story of the Henrico County teenager is featured in the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia. He served as a trumpeter in the British army, then escaped to Canada after the war.

Washington and the Continental Army were about to be bottled up by the British beside the East River in New York, but then, the fog rolled in.

Short of British troops, King George III has turned to an uncle who rules over a small German principality.