Editing Richmond, Virginia (section)

===American Revolution===

[[File:Patrick Henry speaking before the Virginia Assembly.tiff|thumb|[[Patrick Henry]] delivered his "[[Give me liberty or give me death!]]" speech at [[Saint John's Church, Richmond, Virginia|St. John's Church]] in Richmond, helping to ignite the American Revolution.]]
In 1775, [[Patrick Henry]] delivered his famous "[[Give me liberty or give me death!]]" speech in Richmond's [[Saint John's Church, Richmond, Virginia|St. John's Church]], greatly influencing Virginia's participation in the [[First Continental Congress]] and the course of the [[American Revolution]].<ref name="liberty_death">Grafton, John. "[https://books.google.com/books?id=Pfaag5M6zSIC&dq=give+me+liberty+or+give+me+death&pg=PA1 The Declaration of Independence and Other Great Documents of American History: 1775–1864] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160115091755/https://books.google.com/books?id=Pfaag5M6zSIC&pg=PA1&ots=8ajFS0_ad6&dq=give+me+liberty+or+give+me+death&sig=DeTt2XiAZBxHr1IB_mc_CvXtdP4#PPA1,M1 |date=January 15, 2016 }}." '''2000''', Courier Dover Publications, pp. 1–4.</ref> On April 18, 1780, the state capital was moved from [[Williamsburg, Virginia|Williamsburg]] to Richmond, providing a more centralized location for Virginia's increasing western population and theoretically isolating the capital from a British attack from the coast.<ref name="VHS">"[http://www.vahistorical.org/education/april.htm April dates in Virginia history] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301212616/http://www.vahistorical.org/education/april.htm |date=March 1, 2012 }}." ''[http://www.vahistorical.org/ Virginia Historical Society] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180331122431/http://www.vahistorical.org/ |date=March 31, 2018 }}.'' Retrieved on July 11, 2007.</ref> In 1781, [[Loyalists fighting in the American Revolution|Loyalist troops]] led by [[Benedict Arnold]] led a [[raid on Richmond]] and burnt it, leading Governor [[Thomas Jefferson]] to flee while the [[Virginia militia]], led by [[Sampson Mathews]], unsuccessfully defended the city.<ref name="Waddell">{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_rZbEC1kEdpcC |title=Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871 |publisher=C. R. Caldwell |last1=Waddell |first1=Joseph Addison |year=1902 |page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_rZbEC1kEdpcC/page/n290 278]}}</ref>