On February 26, 1775, residents of Salem, Massachusetts, banded together to force the British to withdraw from their town ...

A British soldier who suffered horrific burns to 70 per cent of his body in a Taliban rocket attack is fighting to overturn a paltry compensation award from the Ministry of Defence. Lance Corporal ...

Britain's colonies sent over two and a half million men to fight for Britain during the war. India sent the most soldiers. At that time, India included both Pakistan and Bangladesh. British ...

the latest objects to be sent back to their homelands as museums grapple with their colonial-era holdings. The artifacts, known as the Benin Bronzes and mostly housed in a museum in Leiden, were ...

Mr Anderson, who was caught in November in Russia’s Kursk region, was sentenced to serve the first five years of his term in ...

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 ...

An archaeology team has started unearthing artifacts that show the life of soldiers ... 1770s. British General Charles Cornwallis ordered the burning of a Continental Army barracks in Colonial ...

Trump is not the first American leader to dream of northern expansion. History suggests these designs reveal simmering ...

The population of British colonies in the Americas at the time ... The results were devastating for the British. More than 900 soldiers were either killed, captured or wounded.

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 ...