Virginia Discovery Reveals Forgotten Camp of French Troops Who Helped Win America’s Revolution

A search for Civil War artifacts in a Virginia farm field unexpectedly uncovered something much older and rarer: evidence of a French military encampment from the Revolutionary War. Relic hunters Lafayette “Scotty” Crabtree Jr. and Greg Lagasse were searching land south of Fredericksburg when their metal detectors found small buttons near a creek. The buttons […]