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In up-close looks at war via videos, museum-goers can go back to the 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill, an intense scene of ...
The banks of the Ohio River were transformed into a living history lesson Monday as Louisville and Jeffersonville came together to celebrate the legacy of Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette.
British Gen. Cornwallis’s sword, believed to be the one surrendered to Americans at Yorktown in 1781, is on display at the ...
A historic Federal-style home, built by an American Revolutionary War soldier, is on the market for $5.49 million. It’s at 142 Main St. in a part of Fairfield, Conn. called Southport.
Archaeologists recently announced the discovery of skeletons at Colonial Williamsburg – but the skeletons weren’t from the Revolutionary War. The remains were found while excavators searched ...
October 15, 2024 Rare sword from a Revolutionary War soldier to be displayed at Philly museum Sgt. Jeremiah Keeler, of the Continental Army, carried the weapon during the Siege of Yorktown that ...
Four Confederate soldier skeletons from the 1862 Battle of Williamsburg were found at Colonial Williamsburg, with archaeologists working to identify the remains.
The gravestone for Revolutionary War soldier Joseph Nevitt was nowhere to be found in the old Holy Rood Cemetery in Georgetown when Margaret D. MacKenzie searched for it last year. As state ...
This was the case in 1775, when the shots fired at Lexington and Concord sparked the Revolutionary War. 500,000 Black people were living in the colonies at the time, 90% of whom were enslaved.
The Revolutionary War-era trench where the remains were located extends onto an adjoining, quarter-acre site that was acquired by Gloucester County in 2020 and had not been thoroughly explored by ...
The banks of the Ohio River were transformed into a living history lesson Monday as Louisville and Jeffersonville came together to celebrate the legacy of Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette.