On February 26, 1775, residents of Salem, Massachusetts, banded together to force the British to withdraw from their town ...
The British soldiers who encountered American militiamen at Lexington and Concord may have been surprised by the colonists' fierce opposition. Yet the Redcoats knew of some colonists' increasing ...
Isidore Mandiouban, retired Senegalese soldier. In 1960 independence came to most of the French colonies. In the same year Nigeria, the Gambia, Cameroun and Somalia became independent of British rule.
Four days shy of its 250th anniversary, the important but little-known Revolutionary standoff called Leslie’s Retreat played ...
When Britain asked its colonies for help ... Every day there are from 15 to 30 Tommies [British soldiers] dying from fever and dysentery. Every one that dies is sewn up in a blanket, and four ...
Mr Anderson, who was caught in November in Russia’s Kursk region, was sentenced to serve the first five years of his term in ...
The Colonists were furious ... the lone guard was reinforced by eight British soldiers with loaded muskets and fixed bayonets, their captain with drawn sword." McCullough continued: "Shouting ...
The former British soldier known as Solider F is to stand trial for murder and attempted murder on Bloody Sunday more than 50 years ago. A former member of the British army’s Parachute Regiment ...
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