When commanded, they unsheathed their swords and bowed in salute ... memoriam of two soldiers who served in the American Revolutionary War. But it isn’t 1783. It’s 2023, and the descendants ...

This lecture was part of the American Revolutionary War in the West conference hosted by the St. Charles County (MO) Historical Society. This lesson explores the weapons used by the British ...

In 1775, a ragtag army of farmers and tradesmen went to war against the most powerful army in the world, ultimately winning American independence. What military technologies did the American ...

The Revolutionary War was premodern: At Saratoga ... Combat was often up close and personal, with edged weapons: swords, knives, hatchets and especially bayonets. Eighteenth-century America ...

This month sees the official launch of the Revolutionary War commemorations — the beginning of a year-and-a-half-long celebration leading up to next year’s Semiquincentennial. And the (mostly ...

The Revolutionary War Pension Files Transcription Project aims to transcribe approximately 2.3 million original documents that correspond with more than 83,000 individual soldiers. The information ...

North Andover Historical Society museum educator David Blauvelt highlighted some of the area’s Revolutionary War heroes who are buried in the First and Second Old Burial Grounds and how their ...

Two hundred and fifty years ago, shots fired in Lexington and Concord set off the Revolutionary War. A new nation, independent from Britain, was about to be born. Before dawn on Saturday ...

From the bravery of the Massachusetts Minutemen to the famous midnight ride of Paul Revere to the very first battle of the Revolutionary War, Massachusetts was a host for several key happenings ...