Saturday marks the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the American Revolutionary War with the "shot heard 'round the world" on Lexington Green in Massachusetts on April 19, 1775. The conflict ...

On June 23, 1775, Londoners focused on enjoying a regatta, not fretting about a brewing rebellion.

The Battle of Lexington, 19 April 1775, 1910, oil on canvas by William Barns Wollen (1857-1936) By the spring of 1775, the upheaval in the British North American colonies had reached an advanced ...

The British Parliament then passed the Tea Act, which granted the British East India Company a monopoly to sell tea in the American colonies. Protests throughout Boston were swift and intense.

Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 19, 1775, British troops faced off against colonial militias in the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord, and exchanged fire - the "shot heard ...

Under pressure from London, British Maj. Gen. Thomas Gage put quill to paper 250 years ago last Saturday in issuing the disastrous order for a raid on Concord in the Province of Massachusetts Bay ...