A violent windstorm scattered British flatboats on the York River more than 100 years before the term “derecho” would be coined to describe extreme squall lines.

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The event was very similar to the one in Boston, just on a smaller scale.

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Andrew Lewis helped lead Virginians to victory over the Shawnee in 1774 and later chased the royal governor out of Virginia but felt he wasn’t given his proper due.

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Garrett Channell is executive director of the Salem History Museum and Historical Society.

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For much of 1774, Virginia was distracted from its conflicts with Britain by military action against the natives.

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