Hero Of The Revolution

At age 16, Susanna Bolling overheard British General Cornwallis, quartered in her City Point/Hopewell, VA home, plotting to capture Continental Army General Lafayette, whose headquarters were at the Half Way House. She slipped out, crossed the Appomattox River, and rode almost 15 miles through the night to warn Lafayette, who escaped. Her action enabled Lafayette to continue leading the Virginia Campaign, which ended with Cornwallis in Yorktown and set the stage for the decisive American victory.

Bellwood, Virginia · United States