The wreck of what appears to be a British ship destroyed during the siege of Yorktown in 1781 has been discovered in Virginia. Experts from JRS Explorations spotted the wreck, which is believed to be ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Prize-winning military historian Rick Atkinson, a comic book fan growing up, hadn’t imagined his own work ...
The Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia is opening an exhibition from the perspective of a single British soldier. A life-sized figure of Richard St. George, a British solider during the ...
World War I, as it would come to be known, rather took most powers by surprise. In 1914, Great Britain, which had not entered ...
Episode 3 captures the chaos, sacrifices, and turning points that guided America toward independence during 1776–1777.
pt. I. The view from London. "The tyrant": George III ; The prime minister: Lord North -- pt. II. Victory and defeat in the north (1776-1778). The peace commissioners?: the Howe brothers ; "The old ...
NMAI copy v.4 (39088014920409) from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Contents Provincial characteristics and sectional tendencies in the era preceding the American crisis: v. 1. Great ...
On April 19, 1775, the "shot heard 'round the world" was fired on the Lexington, Mass. town green. No one knows for sure who fired the shot, but when British soldiers heard it, they panicked. The red ...
Newly discovered documents that were recovered from the drowned body of a patriot pastor shed light on the fight for religious freedom during the Revolutionary War. The water-stained documents, which ...
In the 1940s and 1950s, Lim Hong Bee was one of the leaders of the anti-British anti-colonial struggle, but he has been ...