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Learn how Virginia and Princess Anne County played an important role in the American Revolution, and the events that shaped colonial Virginia, specifically in the years 1774-76, leading up to the war.

This will include the Intolerable Acts, Virginia's reaction, the First Continental Congress, Lexington and Concord, the Williamsburg Gunpowder Incident, Patrick Henry's March on Williamsburg, Lord Dunmore's flight from Williamsburg, the appointment of General Washington, Virginia's two independent rifle companies, the 3rd Virginia Convention, Tensions south of the James, Battle of Hampton, Battle of Kemp's Landing, Battle of Great Bridge, Burning of Norfolk, and Gwynn's Island.