• Reynier van Vlissingen, the Dutch Governor of Negapatam in India, surrendered to British forces in the 1781 Siege of Negapatam because the garrison had only one day of gunpowder remaining?

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American Revolutionary War

• American Revolutionary War officer William Stacy narrowly escaped death by burning at the stake and was given a gold snuff box by George Washington?
• George Rogers Clark was called the "Conqueror of the Northwest" because of his victorious Illinois campaign in the American Revolutionary War?
• Ohio Territorial Governor Charles Willing Byrd once worked for American Revolutionary War financier Robert Morris?
• Charles René Dominique Sochet, Chevalier Destouches, an admiral in the French Navy during the American Revolutionary War, was briefly imprisoned during the War in the Vendée?
• Sir Davidge Gould, who served during the American Revolutionary, French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars, was promoted to the rank of Admiral in 1825?
• Elizabeth F. Ellet was the first writer to record the lives of women who contributed to and survived the American Revolutionary War?
• Fort Antes in what is now Nippenose Township, Pennsylvania, survived a scorched earth attack during the American Revolutionary War, despite having been abandoned by its defenders?
• Fort Randolph (pictured) was an American Revolutionary War fort where Cornstalk, a Shawnee chief, was murdered in 1777?
• George Rogers Clark, older brother of William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, captured two British forts during the American Revolutionary War?
• Huletts Landing, New York (pictured) is one of three settlements near Lake George whose place names derive from members of General James Wadsworth's American Revolutionary War brigade?