Francisco's Fight
A few miles east Peter Francisco, a soldier in the Virginia service, defeated, singlehanded, nine of Tarleton's British dragoons, July, 1781. Francisco weighed two hundred and sixty pounds and was considered the strongest man in Virginia. After the Revolution he became doorkeeper of the House of Delegates. He died in 1836.
1948 text, presented as a historical document.
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Marker data: Virginia Department of Conservation and Development, State Historical Markers of Virginia, 6th ed. (1948)
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