VA, USA
Mount Vernon
First-person accounts and interpretive stories from Mount Vernon.
2 Stories
Accounts & Voices
Historical Voice
April 1781: Seventeen Choose the British
On an April night in 1781, with a British warship anchored in the Potomac and Lund Washington negotiating on the bank, seventeen enslaved people at Mount Vernon made the most consequential decision of...
Historical VoiceWilliam Lee: The Man at Washington's Side
William Lee
William Lee was at every major battle of the Revolutionary War. He was at Boston when the British evacuated, at Trenton when Washington crossed the Delaware in the winter dark, at Valley Forge through...