African Americans have been fighting in the ranks of the American military since before the Continental Army was even formed, numbering among the men facing down disciplined British regulars on the heights of Bunker Hill in our first war with England.
Nearly forty years later, formed behind the defenses of Baltimore, ready to face hardened veterans fresh from the battles against Napoleon, was a runaway slave who was fighting for the future of a republic that still kept his fellow brothers and sisters in bondage... William Williams
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