The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the ...

On February 26, 1775, residents of Salem, Massachusetts, banded together to force the British to withdraw from their town during an oft-overlooked encounter known as Leslie's Retreat ...

Around 1750, the British mainland American colonies had ... for their independence from English rule. This led to the American Revolution, with its ethos of freedom and equality.

the deciding battle of the Revolution was fought at Yorktown, Virginia. Surrounded by American troops and French warships -- Adams had long fought for a strong naval front -- British General ...

Its absolutist kings had ruled without France’s legislature – the Estates General – for more than a century and a half at the time of the American Revolution. British poet Robert Wolseley ...

On March 17, 1776, the Continental Army under Gen. George Washington forced British troops to evacuate Boston.

The British are invading the city this weekend, and Philadelphians are in on the action with the Museum of the American Revolution’s ... unfurling of the British flag and the reading of British ...

Occurring on March 2, 1775 — 48 days before the first shots rang out at Lexington and Concord — Rhode Islanders set British property ... be the start of the American Revolution.