North Carolinians’ role in winning the Revolutionary War began with the fateful fire they set 250 years ago this week.

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It was 250 years ago this week that Patriot militiamen carried out the first military operation of the Revolutionary War in what became the Tar Heel State. There was no pitched battle. No one died.