Special Event
The special event commemorating the 231st anniversary of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse on March 16-18th, 2012, will have the callsign - N4G.
Did You Know?
Nathanael Greene, the future American general who emerged from the Revolutionary War second only to George Washington in the pantheon of American military heroes, began the war as a private in a Rhode Island militia company carrying a musket he had purchased from a British deserter from Boston?
Did You Know?
The British commander in the Battle of Guilford Court House, Lieutenant General Charles, Second Earl Cornwallis, while sitting as a member of the House of Lords, had voted against the Stamp Act and all the other Parliamentary measures that led to the outbreak of the Revolutionary War?
Unmarked Grave . . .
The third of North Carolina's signers of the Declaration of Independence, Joseph Hewes, died in Philadelphia in 1779 and was buried in Christ's Church Yard. In the 1890's when his remains were being sought, the park's founders were told the actual site of his grave was unmarked.
Where can I get more information?
On Both Sides . . .
African American soldiers served in both American and British armies in the Battle of Guilford Courthouse?
