As the Revolutionary War began, those in Williamsburg soon took action

As the Revolutionary War began, those in Williamsburg soon took action

Residents of Williamsburg, Virginia’s colonial capital, naturally did not know on the morning of April 20, 1775, of the events hundreds of miles to the north on the Lexington green and at the Concord bridge. They did not know that the war had already begun. Patrick Henry’s prophetic statements of March 23, 1775, in Richmond’s St. John’s Church had come true sooner than ever the most ardent patriot had dreamed. In his dramatic “Liberty or Death” …