On Jan. 24, 1776, Henry Knox, a bold, portly bookseller and former Bostonian, solved the first problem. Having seized Fort Ticonderoga, in upstate New York, he and his men dragged the garrison’s ...

On August 27, 1776, over the crackle of musket fire and ... stone house occupied by British General Lord Cornwallis and his Redcoats. Thousands of British and Hessian soldiers flanked the Marylanders.

I remember America’s 200th birthday in 1776 when I was just a 15-year-old ... which Governor Jared Polis will certainly sign, as modern-day Redcoats. On April 19, 1775, the mission of the ...