Crockett's Western Battalion, Virginia State Forces, 1780-1781 - Canvas Giclee

Crockett's Western Battalion, Virginia State Forces, 1780-1781 - Canvas GicleeCanvas Giclee (printed as ordered) 15 Numbered Overall: 16" x 20" $550. 00 In October 1779, the Virginia State Assembly enacted legislation to raise a "Western Battalion" of state regular troops to protect her frontier and keep open the supply and communication lines between the state regular and militia forces far to the west in the Ohio Valley (including George Rogers Clark's Illinois Regiment, raised two years earlier). Order to join Greene's

a French Cuirassier saber he had brought home from Europe as a youth

allied batteries fired almost 15

They were also equipped with (P1776 contract ) and musket & bayonets

With allied artillery pounding his defenses

Three men lay dead

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both day and night

Macy yelled to a nearby private to “Go and get it

The incident was used effectively to help recruit soldiers to the American cause throughout the colonies

stood guard at the sentry box located before the Customs House in Boston

could have changed the course of the war had they commanded the great armies

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