Billy Flora: The Black Revolutionary War hero from Portsmouth who helped drive the British out of Virginia

Billy Flora: The Black Revolutionary War hero from Portsmouth who helped drive the British out of Virginia

Billy Flora, a local hero you may not have learned about in history class, has quite the remarkable story.And you may be saying, who was that?Flora was a free Black man from Portsmouth. He fought in two key battles during the American Revolution the Battle of Great Bridge and the Siege of Yorktown. His story is brought to life through a dramatization at the American Revolution Museum in Yorktown.Harvey Bakari, Curator of Black History and Cultur…