On this morning 235 years ago, the Royal Welch Fusiliers were recovering from a disastrous fighting retreat from Concord back to Boston. In one day, the British in Boston had gone from confident ...
Could British troops evict colonists from their homes, eat their food and use their facilities? That’s not exactly true, even though generations of students have heard that story in relation to the ...
The British soldiers who encountered American militiamen at Lexington and Concord may have been surprised by the colonists' fierce opposition. Yet the Redcoats knew of some colonists' increasing ill ...
Repulse of Leslie at the Old North Bridge: This photograph of a painting by Frederick A. Bridgman from 1901 that’s held by the Essex Institute in Salem, Mass., depicts the standoff on Feb. 26, 1775, ...
In January 1815, the fledgling United States won a stunning victory over British redcoats on a plantation field near New Orleans. Fought shortly after a treaty was signed in Belgium ending the war, ...
Newsreels told the story of World War II, and the early still photography of Matthew Brady chronicled the horrors of the Civil War. But with the American Revolution, which began 250 years ago this ...
NEWBURY — Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm will once again be transformed into a Revolutionary War battleground and campsite when Colonial forces tangle with British Redcoats on Oct. 8-9. There will be ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. After a two-year hiatus, Haddonfield's popular revolutionary war reenactment will ...