The colonists’ victory over the crown is monumentally important to the American origin story. What if things had been ...

As the Revolutionary War spread through every ... passage to New York -- the last British stronghold. Many thousands of African Americans who aided the British lost their freedom anyway.

More than 83,000 pension records from the Revolutionary War require preservation ahead of commemorations of the conflict's ...

Long Island was the site of an important early battle of the Revolutionary War in 1776. The British won the battle and went ...

Archaeologists have unearthed lost remnants of America's first soldiers from the Revolutionary ... was in the middle of a war for its independence from the British that ended in 1781 - five ...

The problem, Crawford says is “that much of the war took place not in the North but in the South, and that is where the most ...

Demonstrators disguised themselves and boarded ships to cast chests of British tea into the Boston Harbor — no taxation ...

Almost 250 years ago, British soldiers marched in search of ... at the towns of Lexington and Concord that began the Revolutionary War. The fighting in Concord on April 19, 1775, was immortalized ...

Rhode Island was the first to renounce allegiance to Great Britain, declaring Independence by a legislative act on May 4, ...