Bil Lewis
The Williamsburg Powder Raid: Madison meets Henry
The April 20th, 1775 raid on the armory in Williamsburg brought around the first meeting of a young James Madison and Virginia’s new superhero, Patrick Henry. The initial friendship and eventual disagreements of these two men dominated Virginia politics for two decades. Join President Madison as he reflects on the events leading up to that day and the direction their differing politics took them.
J. L. Bell is the proprietor of the Boston 1775 website (boston1775.blogspot.com), providing daily helpings of history, analysis, and unabashed gossip about Revolutionary New England. He is the author of The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War, a book-length study for the National Park Service about General George Washington in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and numerous articles and book chapters.
