There’s a painting on display right now in the Rhode Island Statehouse that tells an important tale of American history: It’s ...

From the bravery of the Massachusetts Minutemen to the famous midnight ride of Paul Revere to the very first battle of the Revolutionary War ... militiamen found British soldiers gathering ...

The colonial victory against the British in the American Revolutionary War was far from a predetermined outcome. In addition to good strategy and the timely appearance of key allies like the French, ...

Editor’s note: Another in a series of occasional stories about York County in the American Revolution, part of the buildup in ...

And when the Revolutionary War broke out a few ... ambiguous terms to identify soldiers. Other times, they left rosters incomplete. For example, van Duzer points to records that show who was present ...

New England Minutemen, some dressed for war in their finest clothes and at least one fellow wearing his wedding suit, fought the Revolutionary War’s first battles against British soldiers at ...

A dawn salute was held at Old North Bridge in Concord on Saturday morning, where a monument marks the spot where the first British soldier fell, symbolizing the start of the Revolutionary War.

The American Philosophical Society's new exhibit for the 250th birthday of America documents daily life in Philadelphia during the fevered days of the Revolutionary War.

Not only was it the start of the Revolutionary War ... rumor there’s some British coming and I’m here to warn the citizens of Lexington multiple companies of regular soldiers are on their ...

Two hundred and fifty years ago, shots fired in Lexington and Concord set off the Revolutionary War. A new nation ... of the “regulars,” or British soldiers from Boston, and whether the ...

Many may believe the phrase “shot heard round the world” was written about the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand that started World War 1, or for the Saturday morning cartoon ... descendants ...