Nananthiel Bacon Castle, Surry

Day 4

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September 13th 2008
First of all Jack. It was them damm Frenchies what done it. They hemmed us into a corner of Yorktown and blockcaded the Chesepeake Bay and stopped out troops being transported to New York. Today - this is Tuesday (for the purposes of this blog) we went to Scotland via Surry (yes the spelling is correct) by ferry across the James River. Here we visited various old Colonial houses and had lunch i ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more