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British colonies in North America have provided pensions for soldier's years prior to the Revolutionary War for more than a century. [1] It wasn't until the war broke out that the United States government provided three types of pensions for soldiers during the war: A disability pension was granted to a soldier who was injured in the line of duty, a service pension was granted to any veteran ...
The Southern Campaign of the Revolution National Heritage Corridor was established in the National Heritage Area Act in 2022. [58] The National Heritage Area will help preserve and promote tourism at several dozen historic sites along an 8-mile-wide corridor in North Carolina and South Carolina.
Boston campaign (1775–1776) Invasion of Quebec (1775–1776) New York and New Jersey campaigns (1776–1777) Saratoga campaign (1777) Philadelphia campaign (1777–1778) Yorktown campaign (1781) Northern theater of the American Revolutionary War after Saratoga (1778–1781) Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783)
Southern Campaigns: Pension Transactions for a description of the transcription effort by Will Graves; Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War; South Carolina Line: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th Regiments; List of North Carolina militia units in the American Revolution; List of United States militia units in the American Revolutionary War
Huck's Defeat or the Battle of Williamson's Plantation was an engagement of the American Revolutionary War that occurred in present York County, South Carolina on July 12, 1780, and was one of the first battles of the southern campaign to be won by Patriot militia.
The southern delegates planned on conducting a walkout during the roll call vote on the party's platform, which included support for civil rights, but Sam Rayburn, chair of the convention, instead used a voice vote as he believed a walkout would ruin Truman's presidential campaign. Only 35 of the 278 southern delegates, thirteen from Alabama ...
Shivaji's Southern campaigns are also defined as Maratha invasion of Karnataka and Dakshina Digvijaya campaigns. Following his coronation as sovereign ruler, Shivaji faced a tumultuous period marked by the loss of his trusted advisor and mother, Jijabai , and escalating conflicts with neighboring powers.
The campaign involved land and naval forces of Great Britain and France, and land forces of the United States. British forces were sent to Virginia between January and April 1781 and joined with Cornwallis's army in May, which came north from an extended campaign through the southern states.