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 ...

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 ...

The British general finished his final ... Gage’s weakness and explains his failure and the army’s humiliation,” the American Revolution Institute wrote. Pragmatists like Schopieray point ...

Good morning. Today we’re going deep on one of the best photos the Globe’s photojournalists captured in April: a dramatic depiction of the skirmish that launched the American Revolution.

"In the first armed battle of the American Revolution." The encounter left eight colonists dead and 10 injured. It is believed that one member of the British Army would die from his wounds on the ...

This week, the show travels back to the American Revolution to explore the science ... "NOVA" features a skilled marksman firing the British Army's smoothbore musket at a relatively close target ...

But I think the American Revolution is very much a paradox ... the patriot army than it would to allow them to join the British Army. And this had an enormous effect on the outcome of the war ...