Nat Turner was supported by a group of more than seventy enslaved and free Blacks who sought to liberate enslaved people while brutally killing around 60 white individuals, including men, women, and children.
The French victory blocked British reinforcements and resupplies for General Cornwallis at Yorktown who surrendered his forces on October 19.
The oldest continuous elected legislative assembly in the New World, the House of Burgesses in Virginia, convened for the first time.
The British pirate Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, was killed during a battle with British sailors under the command of Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
They quickly began to construct a triangular fort containing a number of houses alongside a storehouse and a church, which they named James Fort after King James I.
With the cry of ‘bread or blood!’ the women marched to the city’s market district where they broke into government storehouses and nearby businesses.
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