Revolutionary War Road Trip on Us Route 60

A Revolutionary War Road Trip on US Route 60 tracks the end of the British Southern Campaign across Virginia. The campaign began with three invasions of Virginia by sea and ended with a fourth invasion from the south by land. The road trip begins early in the morning at the University of Virginia and downtown Charlottesville, where an early warning allowed Thomas Jefferson and most of the Virginia Assembly to escape British capture by Cornwallis' forces. From Charlottesville, the road trip heads to Richmond with stops at Monticello, Ash Lawn-Highland, Scottsville and Powhatan. Richmond, the capital of Virginia from 1780 is also the home of St. John's Church where Patrick Henry delivered his famous Liberty or Death” speech. From Richmond, the road trip continues through New Kent to Williamsburg, Virginia's capital for most of the war. Finally, the road trip continues east along the Colonial Parkway to the Yorktown battlefield, where in October 1781, the last major battle of the Revolutionary War was fought.Houghton, Raymond C. is the author of 'Revolutionary War Road Trip on Us Route 60 ', published 2006 under ISBN 9781931373203 and ISBN 1931373205.