January 3 - The 11th Continentals, including at least two black Marines listed on regimental muster rolls as "Isaac Walker" and "Orange" participates in the Battle of Princeton, in a counterattack that Washington personally led from the saddle of a battle-nervous white horse.December 25 - The 14th Continental regiment, an integrated unit organized by John Glover, manned the boats that ferried the Continental Army across the Delaware River.Within a month 300 had joined what Dunmore dubbed his “Ethiopian Regiment.” November - Virginia’s British Royal Governor, Lord Dunmore, issued a proclamation that he would free any slave who left his master to serve alongside British forces.March 5 - Crispus Attucks, a Bostonian sailor who had escaped slavery, one of 5 victims of the Boston Massacre, is killed.The timelines below details the actions of African Americans in the armed forces from the Revolutionary War until the end of the Civil War.
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