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Captain Thomas Posey and the 7th Virginia Regiment

Captain Thomas Posey and the 7th Virginia Regiment

Michael Cecere

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Heritage Books Inc.
Año de edición:
2009
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Biografía: general
ISBN:
9780788435843
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The 7th Virginia Regiment was one of six additional battalions raised in the colony in early 1776. It played a prominent role in driving Lord Dunmore and his loyalist forces off of Gwynn's Island and out of Virginia. Captain Thomas Posey commanded a rifle

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