Mount Vernon, VA
Stories
2 first-person accounts from the Revolutionary era.
Historical Voices
April 1781: Seventeen Choose the British
On an April night in 1781, with a British warship anchored in the Potomac and Lund Washington negotiating on the bank, seventeen enslaved people at Mount Vernon made the most consequential decision of...
William Lee
William Lee: The Man at Washington's Side
William Lee was at every major battle of the Revolutionary War. He was at Boston when the British evacuated, at Trenton when Washington crossed the Delaware in the winter dark, at Valley Forge through...