About 5,000 Slaves served in the continental army, and by 1778 many states slaves who served in the American Revolution were granted their freedom.
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disease definitley kiled more people than combat, look at what the plague "aka black death" did!
This is false. James II wanted to create religious liberty for both English Roman Catholics and Protestant non-conformists. This went against the wishes of the government and meant that his 4 year reign was a struggle between the English Parliament and the Crown.
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The following year, when General Ulysses S. Grant was advancing toward Vicksburg, Miss., Farragut greatly aided him by passing the heavy defensive works at Port Hudson below the Red River and stopping Confederate traffic below that tributary. Vicksburg fell in July 1863, and the entire Mississippi River was soon in Federal control.
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