A British politician and army officer who had ... Comparisons of the British and American empires are easily overdrawn, particularly when assessing an 18th-century imperium with one that ...

WASHINGTON — It was a battle a young America ... the British. Lafayette’s military forces played a pivotal role in the surrender of British Gen. Charles Cornwallis and his army at Yorktown ...

THE MEN WHO LOST AMERICA ... formalities that accompanied any 18th-century military surrender. Early that afternoon, Lord Cornwallis’ vanquished British army belatedly appeared, marching ...

The Redcoats came to the suburbs this weekend, as the 18th Century British Army faced off with the pesky rebels of the American Revolution on the fields of Cantigny Park in Wheaton. The occasion ...

One of the best known battles of the American Revolution may have been in Lexington, Mass. But a historic house about 100 ...

A British warship which sank during the American War of Independence has been found in remarkable condition at the bottom of Lake Ontario. The crows nest and foremast of the sunken 228-year-old ...

Eighty-two skeletons found in a mass grave in the Dutch city of Vianen were mainly British soldiers who died of illness in an 18th Century field ... conditions of army life led to reduced ...

Archeologists in St. Augustine, Florida have discovered evidence of an 18th-century British ... built by the British in St. Augustine around 1781 and features a large moat. America’s oldest ...