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Detail from a 1775 map showing the Norfolk area. Oriented with North to the bottom, Fort Murray is visible near the top of the map. Lord Dunmore had, on arrival in Norfolk, ordered the fortification of the bridge across the southern branch of the Elizabeth River, about 9 miles (14 km) south of Norfolk in the village of Great Bridge.
John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore PC (1730 – 25 February 1809) was a British colonial administrator who served as the governor of Virginia from 1771 to 1775. [1] Dunmore was named governor of New York in 1770.
Dunmore's Proclamation is a historical document signed on November 7, 1775, by John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, royal governor of the British colony of Virginia.The proclamation declared martial law [1] and promised freedom for indentured servants, "negroes" or others (Slavery in the colonial history of the United States), who joined the British Army (see also Black Loyalists).
On April 21, 1775, two days after the Battles of Lexington and Concord (and well before news of those events reached Virginia), Lord Dunmore ordered the removal of the gunpowder from the magazine in Williamsburg, Virginia, to a Royal Navy ship. This action sparked local unrest, and militia companies began mustering throughout the colony.
Although the incident was resolved without violence, Dunmore, fearing for his personal safety, left Williamsburg in June 1775 and placed his family on board a Royal Navy ship. [2] A small British fleet then took shape at Norfolk, a port town whose merchants had significant Loyalist tendencies. Although the town did have some Patriot support ...
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Fort Henry was a colonial fort which stood about ¼ mile from the Ohio River in what is now downtown, Wheeling, West Virginia.The fort was originally known as Fort Fincastle and was named for Viscount Fincastle, Lord Dunmore, Royal Governor of Virginia.
Province of Quebec in 1775. The objective of the American military campaign, control of the British province of Quebec, was frequently referred to as "Canada" in 1775.For example, the authorization by the Second Continental Congress to General Philip Schuyler for the campaign included language that, if it was "not disagreeable to the Canadians", to "immediately take possession of St. John's ...