The Continental Congress’s success in negotiating a military alliance with France was pivotal to the colonies’ successful ...

Virginia’s leaders took careful note. The colony that would soon play a central role in pushing for independence now had a powerful example of what submission might entail. Norfolk became both a ...

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Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” may have persuaded the American colonists of the need for independence, but it is one thing to favor independence and quite another to pick up arms ...

The film recounts the pivotal Battle of Yorktown in 1781, the final major conflict of the American Revolution. It highlights the strategic maneuvers of George Washington and his collaboration with ...

The Continental Army engages the British in the last major battle in the North of the Revolution. A solar eclipse plunges the colonies into darkness in June 1778 as the Continental Army mobilizes from ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky LEXINGTON, Mass. (AP) — Tens of thousands of people came to Lexington, Massachusetts, ...

British Regulars fire on New England colonial militia, also known as a Minutemen, during a reenactment celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and start of the American ...