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2. Burning of Norfolk - Wikipedia

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   The Burning of Norfolk was an incident that occurred on January 1, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War. British Royal Navy ships in the harbor of Norfolk, Virginia, began shelling the town, and landing parties came ashore to burn specific properties. The town, whose significantly Loyalist population had fled, was occupied by Patriot ...

3. Holy Cross High School (Pennsylvania) - Wikipedia

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   The Dunmore and Scranton Campuses retained the upperclassmen of the original schools, and all of the freshmen attended the Dunmore Campus. For the 2008-2009 school year onward, the Scranton Campus was closed, several modular classrooms were added on to the Dunmore Campus, and Holy Cross High School was physically united. Holy Cross today

4. Interstate 81 in Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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   Interstate 81 ( I-81) is a north–south Interstate Highway, stretching from Dandridge, Tennessee, northeast to Fisher's Landing, New York, at the Canada–United States border. In Pennsylvania, I-81 runs for 232.76 miles (374.59 km) from the Maryland state line northeast to the New York state line near Hallstead and is called the American ...

5. The 1619 Project - Wikipedia

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   The 1619 Project is a long-form journalism endeavor that became a leading subject of the American history wars. The 1619 Project is a revisionist historiographical work that takes a critical view of traditionally revered figures and events in American history, including the Patriots in the American Revolution, the Founding Fathers, along with Abraham Lincoln and the Union during the Civil War.

6. Fort Pitt (Pennsylvania) - Wikipedia

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   Fort Pitt (Pennsylvania) Coordinates: 40.4411°N 80.0090°W. A Plan of the New Fort at Pitts-Burgh drawn by cartographer John Rocque in 1765. Fort Pitt was a fort built by British forces between 1759 and 1761 during the French and Indian War at the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers, where the Ohio River is formed in western ...

7. African Americans in the Revolutionary War - Wikipedia

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   African Americans. In the American Revolution, gaining freedom was the strongest motive for Black enslaved people who joined the Patriot or British armies. It is estimated that 20,000 African Americans joined the British cause, which promised freedom to enslaved people, as Black Loyalists. Around 9,000 African Americans became Black Patriots.