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As the May 5, 1862, Battle of Williamsburg raged along the Bloody Ravine and in front of Fort Magruder, the Union commander sought to turn the flank of the Confederate defenses. Gen. Joseph Hooker was convinced that the right flank was unoccupied …
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Because Lt. Col. Benjamin S. Ewell had made little progress on the Williamsburg defenses by late June 1861, Gen. John B. Magruder, commanding the Army of the Peninsula, replaced him with Gen. Lafayette McLaws. Capt. Alfred L. Rives, acting chief o…
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When Virginia seceded on April 17, 1861, Union and Confederate leaders alike saw the Peninsula as an avenue of attack against Richmond. Federal ships on the James and York rivers could guard an army flanks and escort supply vessels upstream. Fort …
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Williamsburg, once the capital of Virginia, declined after the American Revolution. By 1861, although many colonial structures still lined the streets, the Governor Palace and former capitol building lay in ruins. The College of William and Mary h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G73_princess-anne-port_Williamsburg-VA.html
This site was used from 1699 when Governor Nicholson designated it as one of two ports for Williamsburg, the colonial capital of Virginia.
This port was used primarily for the export of tobacco, the basis of Virginia's economy, and also as a land…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EKF_james-city-county-york-county_Williamsburg-VA.html
Marker Front:One of the original shires formed in 1634, and named for Jamestown, the first settlement in Virginia, 1607. Williamsburg is in this county.
Marker Reverse:One of the eight original shires formed in 1634. First called Charles River,…
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Nearby lived "Patrick Napier of Queenes Creek in the County of Yorke chirurgeon," one of the earliest surgeons of Scottish descent in Virginia. Born about 1634, and apprenticed to the surgeon general of the Scottish army defeated by Cromwell in 16…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19K3_in-gallia-nati-mortui-in-virginia_Williamsburg-VA.html
Here are inscribed the names of those soldiers of France who died within these walls and in other hospitals of Williamsburg of wounds received during the Siege of Yorktown
Regiment d'AgenoisAimont, Jean Francois · Allard. Andre · …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19K0_the-christopher-wren-building_Williamsburg-VA.html
Their Majesties King William & Queen Mary on February the eight, sixteen hundred and ninety-three, granted a charter establishing the College of William and Mary in Virginia "to the end that Church of Virginia may be furnished with a seminary of m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19JW_priorities-of-the-college-of-william-and-mary_Williamsburg-VA.html
Chartered February 8, 1693, by King William and Queen Mary. Main buildings designed by Sir Christopher Wren.
First college in the United States in its antecedents, which go back to the college proposed at Henrico (1619). Second to Harvard Univ…