Cardinal News 250

The soldiers stopped short of declaring themselves in rebellion, but they made it clear they were willing to cross that line if necessary.

Did a 16-year-old Hopewell girl save Lafayette in 1781? If so, her trail has gone cold.

A conversation with author Libby McNamee, author of a book about the 16-year-old girl who supposedly saved Lafayette from being captured by the British.

Thomas Lewis was the lesser-known brother of Andrew Lewis. Both brothers negotiated a short-lived treaty with the Lenape tribe.

We have no precedent for what is now transpiring. The only thing we can say for certain is that the Colonies represented in Philadelphia sent high-level delegations and voted to organize a boycott.

A violent windstorm scattered British flatboats on the York River more than 100 years before the term “derecho” would be coined to describe extreme squall lines.

The event was very similar to the one in Boston, just on a smaller scale.

Andrew Lewis helped lead Virginians to victory over the Shawnee in 1774 and later chased the royal governor out of Virginia but felt he wasn’t given his proper due.

Garrett Channell is executive director of the Salem History Museum and Historical Society.

For much of 1774, Virginia was distracted from its conflicts with Britain by military action against the natives.