AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE

THE ALL BLACK FIRST RHODE ISLAND REGIMENT

CONSISTED OF 33 FREEDMEN AND 92 SLAVES

WHO WERE GUARANTEED THEIR FREEDOM IF

THEY STUCK OUT THE WAR.

UNFORTUNATELY THEY WERE ALL WIPED OUT

IN A BRITISH ATTACK BEFORE

THE WAR ENDED.

BY 1779, HOWEVER, 1 IN 7 SOLDIERS IN THE

CONTINENTAL ARMY WERE BLACK.

THE CONTINENTAL ARMY ALSO HAD NUMEROUS

WOMEN SERVING AS COOKS, NURSES, AND

A FEW WHO EVEN SAW COMBAT.

THE MOST FAMOUS WAS MARY LUDWIG HAYS AKA

"MOLLY PITCHER" WHO REPLACED HER INJURED

HUSBAND AT HIS CANNON DURING THE

BATTLE OF MONMOUTH.

GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST

SPIES/SPYMASTERS IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

ALTHOUGH HE IS NOW KNOWN FOR HIS LEGENDARY

HONESTY, HE WAS IN FACT A GENIUS AT DECEPTION

AND WOULD CONSTANTLY LEAK "INFORMATION" TO THE

BRITISH THAT MADE HIS ARMY SEEM MUCH

STRONGER THAN IT WAS.

BY 1779 THERE WERE MORE AMERICANS FIGHTING

IN THE BRITISH ARMY THAN IN THE CONTINENTAL ARMY.