Ethiopian Regiment
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ethiopian-regiment-211-411302
title:
Ethiopian Regiment
text:
The Royal Ethiopian Regiment, also known as Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment, was a British military unit of formerly enslaved Black enlisted men. It was organized a few months after the April 1775 outbreak of the American Revolution by the Earl of Dunmore, last Royal Governor of Virginia. Dunmore had issued a proclamation in November promising freedom to enslaved Blacks held by Patriots in Virginia, who joined the British cause to suppress the insurrection. Hundreds of enslaved men left their
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Military unit
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Regiment
date created:
2008-06-24T05:29:50Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T21:25:36Z
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