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 ...
Four days shy of its 250th anniversary, the important but little-known Revolutionary standoff called Leslie’s Retreat played ...
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.
A British soldier heard the accusation, and soon he and the boy traded insults. The argument escalated until the soldier hit the boy’s head with the butt of his rifle. The scuffle quickly attracted a ...
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 ...
Two British soldiers surprise Revere ... Both sides are engaged as the Colonists flee. Eight Americans are killed and ten wounded. The British arrive at Concord and begin searching the town ...
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.
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