The communities along Chesapeake Bay and the many tributaries that crisscross Virginia and Maryland were under constant threat from the British during the Revolutionary War, beginning in 1775 with Lord Dunmore's assault on the small Virginia town of Hampton and the devastating bombardment of Norfolk, through the naval conflicts and blockades, pillaging raids and burnings of shipyards, warehouses, homes, and farms, the slaughter of families as well as livestock, from the banks of the James to Baltimore and Maryland's Eastern Shore, until the French-supported Battle of the Virginia Capes and the Yorktown victory that won America's independence. And even after the armistice in 1783, the fighting and dying continued in the Battle of the Barges, said to be the bloodiest naval battle on Bay during the war. The revolutionary role of the two Chesapeake colonies is the focus of this book.
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The review of this Book prepared by Gene Williamson
