After the “shot heard round the world” started the Revolutionary War, Williamsburg found itself on the threshold of its own ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in Colonial Williamsburg ... to house up to 2,000 soldiers and 100 horses. But the building was short-lived. In 1781, Charles Cornwallis, a general in the British army, and his ...

As a living, breathing city, the sights, sounds and smells of Colonial ... 18th-century British Colonial America. With this focus on the ecological history specific to Colonial Williamsburg ...

Tiny soldier figurines play fifes and drums in front of a model of Colonial Williamsburg’s Capitol. Figurines of women in ...

With so many spots devoted to Colonial ... in the Williamsburg area, what makes Yorktown Battlefield so special? For starters, it's the site of the 1781 siege and surrender of British troops ...

James Lafayette infiltrated British ... Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Despite his service to the United States, it took another six years for Lafayette to earn his freedom. Although enslaved ...