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250 Years Ago, Paul Revere Had Help on His Midnight Ride
The respected silversmith and his fellow messengers played a key role in the colonists’ first victory of the Revolutionary ...
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The story of a Black Revolutionary War hero who took on an entire British platoon lives on
The life story of William “Billy” Flora, a Black man and celebrated Revolutionary War hero, illustrates the paradoxes of America’s founding. Flora was born in Portsmouth in 1755 to Mary ...