Page "Colonial Heights, Virginia" Paragraph 20

There were two American Revolutionary War actions fought on the hillside, the first was in March 1781 under von Steuben and his Virginia Militia, the second in April 1781, under Lafayette.

Both of these actions were against British Major General William Phillips, who mentions the property in a dispatch: “ We assaulted the enemy ’ s work across the river and attempted to gain the high ground adjacent to Thomas Shore ’ s house, but were repulsed with heavy losses .” The British casualties were approx.

200.

While that number of casualties would hardly rate a mention as a skirmish during the War Between the States, most Revolutionary armies only numbered 1500-3000 men, about the size of the average modern day War for Southern Independence re-enactment.