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The Command of the Howe Brothers During the American Revolution. New York and London, 1936. Buchanan, John. The Road to Valley Forge: How Washington Built the Army That Won the Revolution. Wiley, 2004. ISBN 0-471-44156-2. Fischer, David Hackett. Washington's Crossing. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-19-517034-2.
The Illinois campaign, also known as Clark's Northwestern campaign, was a series of engagements during the American Revolutionary War in which a small force of Virginia militia led by George Rogers Clark seized control of several British outposts in the region northwest of the Ohio River in what is now Illinois and Indiana.
This is a category of officers and soldiers who served as Patriots in the Virginia militia during the American Revolutionary War. People from Virginia who fought in units on the British side are categorized under Category:Loyalists in the American Revolution .
This does not include officers born in Virginia who served in the regiments of other states. Officers are categorized under the state from which they served, not their place of birth. Virginia militiamen are located in Category:Virginia militiamen in the American Revolution rather than this category. However, officers who held rank in both the ...
Based on the English system, colonial militias were drawn from the body of adult male citizens of a community, town, or local region. Because there was no standing English Army before the English Civil War , and subsequently the English Army and later the British Army had few regulars garrisoning North America, colonial militia served a vital ...
Daniel Morgan (c. 1736 – July 6, 1802) was an American pioneer, soldier, and politician from Virginia.One of the most respected battlefield tacticians of the American Revolutionary War of 1775–1783, he later commanded troops during the suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion of 1791–1794.
When the Colony of Virginia ordered the creation of multiple regiments in 1775 with the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, these were called the Virginia Line. West Virginia Army National Guard's 201st Field Artillery Regiment can trace its origins to the Virginia Regiment. [15]
The regiment was joined to the 3rd Virginia Regiment on May 12, 1779. General William Russell and Col. Josiah Parker were two of its commanders. Among the negroes serving in the 5th Virginia was James Due. Due was a soldier under the command of Captain John Hawkins of Maryland.