It opened the battles of Lexington and Concord, which, in turn, ignited the American Revolutionary War and resulted in the creation of the United States. Gen. Thomas Gage led the British Army in ...

Historians have debated whether the New Jersey-born wife of a British general was the one who leaked his orders and set the militia into action 250 years ago.

After peaceful attempts at alliance-building stalled, the Continental Army launched an ill-fated invasion of Quebec in June 1775 ...

On May 27 and 28, 1775, the mighty British military suffered an embarrassing blow at the hands of American colonists.

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION examines how America’s ... militiamen (some of them teenagers), Patriot political and military leaders, British Army officers, American Loyalists, Native soldiers and ...