News

Hundreds of reenactors descended on Old Sturbridge Village this past weekend to participate in a series of activities that recreating the sights, sounds, and stories of the American Revolution. The ...
The Continental Army, created in June of 1775, had warily welcomed its new leader, George Washington, without much fuss. A ...
The American Revolutionary War was a struggle for independence by the American colonies against their British rulers. What started with grievances over taxes and lack of representation, exploded ...
Gen. Thomas Gage led the British Army in Massachusetts during the war and wrote his famous order launching what was known as the Concord Expedition on April 18, 1775.
The American Revolutionary War pitted colonial rebels against the mighty British Empire in a struggle for freedom and independence. Amidst the clash of ideologies and the quest for sovereignty ...
There was also a Battle of Staten Island in 1777 that was a failed Continental Army raid against British forces, suffering from a shortage of boats under the command of John Sullivan. 9.
Caught up in the war of independence The conflict in the colonies simmered on. In 1770, British troops committed the Boston MassacreExternal link , when five American colonists were killed by the ...
SCHUYLERVILLE, N.Y. — New York Army National Guard Soldiers memorialized a Revolutionary War Soldier killed 245 years ago during the Battle of Saratoga and buried on the battlefield.
Carolina Day, an ode to the American victory over the British in 1776 that turned the tide of the Revolutionary War, was celebrated with a parade down Meeting Street and program at White Point ...
Test your knowledge of the American Revolution with this quiz! Answer questions on key events, figures, and causes, including the Boston Tea Party, Thomas Jefferson, and the fight for independence.
Between 5,000 and 8,000 men of African descent fought in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. But white colonists’ aversion to arming enslaved people prevented many Black Americans ...
Army Reserve Soldiers, color guard teams, local government officials and citizens gathered to lay wreaths to remember service members and first responders buried in this sacred ground along with ...