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Military History

Even before English colonists arrived at Jamestown, violent conflicts shaped Virginia’s history. For three centuries Virginia’s fields were scarred, its waters disturbed, and its people engaged in battles to determine who would occupy and control the land, how people should be governed, and whether the United States would be one nation indivisible. During the past century most of the battles have been fought far from Virginia, but as home to the Pentagon, the CIA, and more than two dozen military bases representing every branch of the armed forces, Virginia and its people continue to be a critical part of our nation’s military history.

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16,000 BCE to 1622 CE
A Land of Opportunity: Creating Virginia
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1623 to 1763
A Distant Dominion
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1764 to 1824
From British Colony to American State
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1825 to 1860
Challenge of a New Century
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1861 to 1876
Civil War and Reconstruction
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1877 to 1924
Virginia in the New South
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1925 to Today
Dynamic Dominion

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