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    The Southern Theater A TIME LINE

    Sep 01, 2021 3 minutes
    by Elizabeth Howard

    Here’s a look at how major events unfolded in the South during the Revolutionary War (1775–1783).

    1775

    April 21 British royal governor of Virginia, John Murray, Lord Dunmore, orders a store of the colony’s gunpowder to be seized. Alarmed militiamen led by patriot Patrick Henry insist the gunpowder be returned. The Gunpowder Incident is resolved without fighting when Dunmore pays for the seized gunpowder.

    November 14 Dunmore releases a proclamation that offers freedom to slaves belonging to patriots, provided the enslaved people will fight for the

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