Bad Boy Recruiter Denis McCarty leads a short brutish life
Denis McCarty offered the deserters a chance to enlist in the Royal American Regiment. He recruited men out of the Virginia Regiment to...
Loudoun wonders if GW is a Traitor?
You see Loudoun this, Loudoun that, Loudoun Street, Loudoun County ---- everywhere in this area of Winchester and northern Virginia. And...
Gnadenhutten
Gnadenhutten and Allemangel. Imagine the massacre of a place meaning Log Tabernacle or Tents of Grace whose survivors ran to a land,...
Attacks 1755-1756
April SPRINGTIME IS WAR TIME HELL’S VENGEANCE CYCLE begins every Spring . by Jim Moyer compiled in 2015, updated 3/6/2017, 4/2/2017,...
Two letters - 27 Dec 1756 and 31 Dec 1756
There are 2 letters by the two of the most powerful people in Virginia writing to our Colonel George Washington on those 2 dates noted...
Christmas 1755 Winchester VA
How did our Captain George Mercer in Winchester VA spend his Christmas in 1755? . Fort Loudoun construction will not start until May 18,...
Powder Horns
Powder Horns: . Did the Virginia Regiment carry both belly cartouches and powder horns? . Washington writes December 4, 1756: . "I beg...
Andrew Lewis's fort for the Cherokee
The reconstructed Fort Loudoun in Tennessee is not the same one built by Andrew Lewis in 1756 . The fort built by Lewis was about 7 miles...
Patterson's Fort
This is a settler's fort on the land of William Patterson around 1755. This fort would be garrisoned by the Virginia Regiment under...
Frederick County VA Birthday
Birthday Date is December 21, 1738 . See link: http://www.co.frederick.va.us/visit/history-of-frederick-county . That date of...
