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These Black Soldiers Fought for the British During the American Revolution in Exchange for Freedom From Slavery
For enslaved Black Americans living through the Revolutionary War, freedom sometimes meant donning the red coat of the enemy.
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French and British Colonial Styles
The British believed Africans were essentially ... SOLDIER'S POINT OF VIEW "I got into the French army during the colonial period...and first I was a private, then I became a sergeant in the ...
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Archaeologists Accidentally Found the Incredible Lost Remnants of America's First Soldiers
British General Charles Cornwallis ordered the burning of a Continental Army barracks in Colonial Williamsburg in 1781. What he hoped to destroy forever was recently found by archaeologists ...
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Was This Little-Known Standoff Between British Soldiers and Colonists the Real Start of the American Revolution?
Known as Leslie’s Retreat, the standoff took place on February 26, 1775, when British Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Leslie led a raid to seize suspected cannons from a makeshift Colonial armory ...
Russia pays tribute to soldiers who fought British colonial rule in South Africa
Russian Ambassador Roman Ambarov has honored the volunteers who fought in the Second Anglo-Boer War at a memorial event in ...
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250 years later, British ‘troops’ retreat again from Salem
Only 51 days later, British troops and Colonial militia exchanged deadly ... were willing to fight the vaunted British army, and that the spark could occur at any time. “Something incredible ...
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KS4 / GCSE History: Audio recording from Mall Singh - a colonial soldier captured in World War One
He joined the British army, and went into the European ... filled with the voices of Mall Singh and hundreds of other colonial soldiers offering a rare glimpse into their experience of the war.