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While their images might not be immortalized on dollar bills or their stories ingrained into every high school syllabus, these lesser-known figures nonetheless played critical roles in the shaping of ...
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John Laurens Wright, Jr. (“Laurens”), was born December 9, 1932, in Wilmington, N.C. He was the son of the late John Laurens Wright, Sr., and Jane MacMillan Wright. Laurens is survived by his ...
John Laurens' 'Black Battalion,' Hercules Mulligan's Smuggling Skills and Other Historical HAMILTON Facts Explained Learn the History Behind Hamilton ...
John Laurens' War, an award-winning docudrama, will be screening in honor of Veteran's Week to honor Revolutionary War heroes in South Carolina.
In the hit Broadway show “Hamilton,” one of the prominent secondary characters is John Laurens of South Carolina. In the musical, we don’t learn much about Laurens — only that he was a ...
Rumaan Alam reviews Camille Laurens’s new book, “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen,” which explores the back story of Edgar Degas’s famous sculpture and focusses on its subject, the young dancer ...
Archaeologists with the South Carolina Battlefield Preservation Trust have located the battlefield where Revolutionary War officer John Laurens died in 1782, Adam Parker reports for the Post and ...
Laurens' Run, Tar Bluff, South Carolina (top); Musket balls (above) On the morning of August 27, 1782, Continental forces led by John Laurens—aide-de-camp to General George Washington and friend ...