The sacking of Norfolk on New Year’s Day in 1776 alarmed Virginians. The colony’s largest city and one of the largest and most important population centers between New York and South Carolina laid in ruin. If the royal governor, with the help of the Ethiopian Regiment, was willing to destroy the largest city in the colony he administered, what else might he do to stamp out Patriot resistance?.

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“A Shocking Scene”: Smallpox , Gwynn’s Island, and the Fall of the Ethiopian Regiment

  • Justin Iverson

摘要

The sacking of Norfolk on New Year’s Day in 1776 alarmed Virginians. The colony’s largest city and one of the largest and most important population centers between New York and South Carolina laid in ruin. If the royal governor, with the help of the Ethiopian Regiment, was willing to destroy the largest city in the colony he administered, what else might he do to stamp out Patriot resistance?.