The first true commander-in-chief of the armed forces to lead the Revolutionary War was not, as many believe, George ...

Congress voted to make one of the grand monuments in Lafayette Square across from the White House an ode to Baron Friedrich ...

Military victories were essential in helping America win its independence from Britain. Early successes gave the Patriots ...

One of the turning points during the Revolutionary War was the Battle of Bunker Hill 250 years ago. A commemoration of the ...

Documentarian Ken Burns and his team discuss their new series exploring the country’s founding and war for independence on ...

The Gurkhas served alongside the British in the Indian Mutiny, in the trenches on the Western Front, in the desert of Mesopotamia in World War I, and every theater of operations in World War II.

Live demos test effectiveness of Revolutionary War weapons Pitting the Brown Bess against the long rifle, testing the first military submarine, and more. Jennifer Ouellette – Apr 14, 2025 10:30 ...

The soldiers on both sides are all Revolutionary War reenactors, and this recent full-dress rehearsal for the 250th anniversary of the bloody British retreat from Concord to Boston on April 19 is ...

The story of a Black Revolutionary War hero who took on an entire British platoon lives on The role of Billy Flora, of Portsmouth, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of progress ...

Born in 1921 in pre-partition India, Dhatt joined the British Army when the Second World War broke out. Enlisting himself in the army, Dhatt rose to the rank of havildar major and saw action in ...

The Revolutionary War officially began in 1775, with fighting at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. It did not formally end until after the Siege of Yorktown in 1781, with an official peace ...