Record #:

16090

Author(s):

Watson, Alan D.

Abstract:

Delegates met in Halifax on April 4, 1776 and took the first official action against the British crown. Despite victory at Moore's Creek, British soldiers harassed citizens in the Cape Fear region and forced the congress to acknowledge that reconciliation was not an option.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 14 Issue 3, Feb 1975, p13-15, il

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--American Revolutionary War, 1775-1783