Event Level: State
Host/POC: Williamsburg Chapter VASSAR / Gary Dunaway, [email protected]
Location: Freedom Park, 5537 Centreville Road, Williamsburg, VA.
Firing Event: No
Event Color Guard Commander: Dunaway.
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Details: The Battle of Spencer's Ordinary was an inconclusive skirmish that took place on June 26, 1781, late in the American Revolutionary War. British forces under Lieutenant Colonel John Graves Simcoe and American forces under Colonel Richard Butler, light detachments from the armies of General Lord Cornwallis and the Marquis de Lafayette, respectively, clashed near a tavern (i.e., the "ordinary") at a road intersection not far from Williamsburg, Virginia. Lafayette had been shadowing Cornwallis as he moved his army toward Williamsburg from central Virginia. Aware that Simcoe had become separated from Cornwallis, he sent Butler out in an attempt to cut Simcoe off. Both sides, concerned that the other might be reinforced by its main army, eventually broke off the battle. Color Guard muster at 09:15 am.
Virginia SAR Color Guard Attendees: Dunaway, Melhuish.

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