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

As Alexis Coe writes in her history of the First Continental Congress, today, George III is “remembered as the man who lost ...

In 1773 Samuel Adams, John's cousin and a revolutionary ... British Parliament then passed the Tea Act, which granted the British East India Company a monopoly to sell tea in the American colonies.

Right-wing British Member of Parliament Nigel Farage responded favorably to the idea of the United States joining the British ...

The American Revolution was about to begin. An engraving of British soldiers entering Concord on April 19, 1775 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons The recent Salem debacle had been etched in Gage ...

In the 1770s, the power of the British king was limited by the authority of Parliament. In that system ... General – for more than a century and a half at the time of the American Revolution. British ...

The First Continental Congress formed in response to the British Parliament's ... it called for greater American autonomy and limits on Parliament's power over the colonies. The first session ...

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

The British Parliament had imposed a tax on the colonies ... to be the start of the American Revolution. Prominent Rhode Islanders rowed out to the Gaspee, which had run aground near Warwick.

March 22 (UPI) -- British-American influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan returned to Romania aboard a private jet from Miami, where they face human trafficking and other charges.