Wheeling, WV
2 first-person accounts from the Revolutionary era.
Historical Voices
The Run for Powder: Betty Zane and the Last Defense
The powder was almost gone. Inside Fort Henry on the morning of September 12, 1782, Ebenezer Zane and the other defenders understood what that meant. They had held through a day and a night. The attac...
Modern Voices
After Yorktown: The War the Peace Treaty Couldn't End
Most Americans know how the Revolutionary War ended: Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown in October 1781, the British gave up, and the new United States was born. This is true and also incomplete. What...
