Giant of Virginia Peter Francisco’s legendary march into history
A muddled tale recounts Peter Francisco arriving in Virginia in 1765 and earning the nickname the Giant of Virginia. The account traces his life from a mysterious orphaned childhood at City Point to heroism at Germantown and Stony Point. It notes his famed five foot broadsword, Tarleton pursuit, Guilford Court House exploits, and later life in Virginia where he married three times and died.
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City Point
Virginia
Peter Francisco
Anthony Winston
Buckingham
Francisco
Germantown
Anthony Wayne
Stony Point
Continental Army
Washington
Banastre Tarleton
Peter
Tarleton
Butt
Guilford Collee House
Peter Francisca
Clim Uitting
Jim
Sabra
Felice Venable
Ruby Big Elk
Sam
Donna
Miss Digtum
Ruby
Cim
Yancey
Mrs. Big Elk
Tracy
London
Wyatt
Tracy Wyatt
Sabra Cravat's Osage World Comes to Dupont Circle
Sabra Cravat navigates Ozage wealth and politics as Donna Wyatt packs influence. In Osage Oklahoma, Felice and Yancey Cravat rise amid palatial homes and media power, while Sabra schooled in congress faces rival gossip about Yancey and Cimarron.
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Story
Savoy-Bixby
Oklahoma
Women's State Republican Committee
Nick
Niccolo Mazzarini
Osage
Okla
Anyony
Iowa
Sabra Cravat
Sol Levy
Sabra
Committee On
Sol
Levy Mercantile Company
Pawlusky Avenue
Fifth Avenue
Pat Leary
Crook Nose
Learys
Maude Leary
Felice Cravat
Cimarron Cravat
Yancey Cravat
Cimarron
Cim
Yancey
Spain
Earth
Tracy Wyatt
Donna
Ruby Big Elk
Hat Donna
Cravat
Wyatt
Palace of Versailles
Grand Central Station
New York
Duchy of Luxembourg
England
France
Biltmore
Felice
Yancey Craviut
Sabra Darling
Segovia
Rihekah
Seovia
Yanevy
Ruby
Tianna
Argonne
Oklahoma Wigwam
Southwest
A. P
Congress
Congressional House
America
Washington
Senate
Firty
Donna Wyatt
Dupont Circle
Ruby Big
Paris
Leary
Odd Organization Builds Forest with Scouts in Kenya
Richard L. St. Barbe Bakers founded Men of the Trees in the Kenya colony to revive sacred trees and reforest burned lands. The Forest is organized into districts named for dominant tree species, with branches led by forest guides and a nursery that has raised more than 80 000 young trees.
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Men of the Trees
Richard £. St. Barbe Bakers
Kenya Colony
Baker
Boy Scouts
Printer and Patriot in Colonial NY A Martyr for Liberty
The article profiles printer Alexander MacDougall who helped organize the Sons of Liberty during the 1765 stamp tax protests. It notes his printing of sedition, his 1769 sedition libel trial and jail sentence, and his later role as a Revolutionary War commander who raised troops and proved a military genius.
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Benjamin Franklin
Sons of Liberty
New York
MacDougall
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