Revolutionary War Leaders
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All Men Created Equal: How the Founding Fathers Viewed Slavery
VIDEO | While about 5,000 African American soldiers fought for the ideals of freedom and democracy during the Revolutionary War, slavery was common in...
Thomas Paine
VIDEO | Jim Percoco of the American Battlefield Trust sheds light on one of the overlooked figures of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine. Paine was...
Francis Marion: The Swamp Fox
VIDEO | In 1780, when the British took Charleston, it looked as if the rest of South Carolina might end up in Loyalist hands. But a band of Patriot...
Foreign Fighters of the Revolutionary War
VIDEO | Jim Percoco of the American Battlefield Trust speaks on the European leaders who helped America win their war for independence against Great...
William ”Danger“ Thomson
Born in Pennsylvania, William "Danger" Thomson moved to the Congaree River in South Carolina where he farmed indigo. Thomson served in the Provincial...
Donald MacDonald
Donald MacDonald was born around 1708 or 1709. (Sometimes, his Scottish last name is spelled “Macdonald” in historical documents or writings, but at...
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