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Was This Little-Known Standoff Between British Soldiers and Colonists the Real Start of the American Revolution?
On February 26, 1775, residents of Salem, Massachusetts, banded together to force the British to withdraw from their town ...
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British Leaders
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 ...
250 years later, British ‘troops’ retreat again from Salem
Four days shy of its 250th anniversary, the important but little-known Revolutionary standoff called Leslie’s Retreat played ...
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The Boer War
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 ...
Russia sentences British soldier to 19 years in prison and penal colony
Mr Anderson, who was caught in November in Russia’s Kursk region, was sentenced to serve the first five years of his term in ...
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Former British soldier to stand trial for murder and attempted murder on Bloody Sunday
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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Remember When: A-K Valley landmarks said to be named after soldier from 1700s believed to have used biological weapons
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.