5 September 1781
#KnowSouthernHistoryOn this date in 1781 the French Fleet won...
At the Battle of Virginia Capes, the French fleet defeated its British counterpart, trapping Lord Cornwallis’s British and Loyalist troops at Yorktown, Virginia. This paved the way for victory in the American War for Independence
Other Years:
- 1774 - Delegates of twelve British North American colonies met in the First Continental Congress at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in response to the Intolerable Acts passed the British Parliament.
- 1836 - Sam Houston was elected as president of the Texas Republic.
- 1847 - Jesse Woodson James Jesse Woodson James, Missouri outlaw and Confederate guerrilla was born in Kearney, Missouri. Missouri.
- 1863 – The “Bread Revolt” began in Mobile, Alabama.
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