Revolutionary War Leaders
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Will of George Washington Parke Custis
The will of George Washington Parke Custis, adopted son of George Washington, grandson of Martha Washington, and father-in-law of Robert E. Lee.
Banastre Tarleton: The Bloody Butcher of Waxhaws
VIDEO | Perhaps no fighter on Revolutionary War battlefields created such a name for themselves as Redcoat cavalry officer Banastre Tarleton. His...
“To Request That You Will Have It Proclaimed”
John Hancock wrote to George Washington, informing him of the Declaration of Independence.
“I wish you to be exceedingly watchfull” - George Washington to George Weedon, September 1781
George Washington's letter to George Weedon as the French and American forces gathered at Yorktown.
Henry Clinton: The General who Lost America
VIDEO | For most of the Revolutionary War, General Henry Clinton was second-in-command of the British army and he had his own ideas about what...
John Montagu
John Montagu was First Lord of the Admiralty during the Revolutionary War years.
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