British soldiers were stunned by the wealth of the rebellious American people, their fields and farmhouses. "From the beginning of the occupation in late August 1776, the British imposed martial ...

British troops and loyalists fled Boston by ... on this day in history, March 17, 1776. "Surely it is the Lord's doings and it is marvelous in our eyes," patriot and future first lady Abigail ...

Enslaved people provided the essential labor that soon would prove to be so important. In May 1776, British warships and soldiers arrived in a nearly overwhelming show of force. Soon, British ...

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Peter Watson’s ambitious survey celebrates 500 years of innovation in science — but is patchier on the arts and the legacy of ...

Early map of the colonies of Pennsylvania and New Jersey covering the area where the British and American troops fought during the winter of 1776-1777 (Library of Congress) After experiencing so ...

On Sept. 15, 1776, British forces occupied New York City in the American Revolution. In 1777 Polish Count Casimir Pulaski was commissioned a major general in the Continental Army. In 1789 novelist ...

His two main arguments are that the Patriots, not the British, were primarily responsible for burning Norfolk in early 1776 and that British emancipation of enslaved people in late 1775 and early ...

its historians couldn’t admit any discussion of the bad deeds the nation had done in 1776. If New York was to be a great city, it had to move past its years of British occupation. We still have ...

As the patriot army drives the British out of Boston in the spring of 1776, Elsbeth Culpepper, a 13-year-old maid, finds herself caught up in the chaos. Her employer, a Loyalist judge, has been ...