Lord Dunmore Fights Virginia at Battle of Great Bridge 1775
Tenuous from the start, unlike other royal governors, Dunmore created a rift when he dissolved the House of Burgesses on May 26, 1774.
18th Century Virginia Musings
Category: 1765-1776 Virginia Rumblings to Revolution
Dunmore seizes magazine gunpowder: Colonial Williamsburg
Two days after Lexington and Concord, Virginia’s royal governor, Lord Dunmore, ordered the seizure of the gunpowder stored in the Williamsburg magazine.
