Colonel Christopher Greene: Commanded the Rhode Island 1st of African American Continental Soldiers
Christopher Greene was leading the Rhode Island 1st, the first African American Regiment in the Continental Army [the first black regiment of the war was British – Virginia Royal Governor Dunmore’s Ethiopian Brigade in 1775], when he was killed and mutilated at the Battle of Pines Bridge in a vicious attack by British Loyalist ‘Cowboys’, … Continue reading Colonel Christopher Greene: Commanded the Rhode Island 1st of African American Continental Soldiers
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