On the night of April 18, 1775, a rider set out from Boston on the eve of the American Revolution to warn colonists across ...

The British army and navy, in a stunning display of global ... Washington's army in New York City on this day in history, August 22, 1776. "A naval spectacle of more than 90 vessels filled the ...

The National Museum of the United States Army revealed a new temporary exhibit featuring nearly 300 Revolutionary War ...

A .67 caliber smoothbore flintlock pistol, the Light Dragoon was made specifically for the Light Dragoon regiments – cavalry regiments in the British Army. During the Revolutionary War ...

Many of the men who took part in the Congress left traces across the state that remain visible today. Witherspoon's home, statue and grave are preserved in Princeton. Abraham Kitchel’s former ...

As the Revolutionary War spread through every region, those in bondage sided with whichever army promised them personal liberty. The British actively recruited slaves belonging to Patriot masters ...

On Sept. 15, 1776, British forces occupied New York City in the American Revolution. In 1777 Polish Count Casimir Pulaski was commissioned a major general in the Continental Army. In 1789 novelist ...

A few months after the start of the Revolutionary War, the newly established Continental Army and the British faced each ...

"NOVA" features a skilled marksman firing the British Army's smoothbore musket at a ... camps and combat outposts in some of the Revolutionary War-era defenses tested by "NOVA." ...

In the Revolutionary War, you have both sides basically using the same type of firearm. Yes, some were using rifles, depending on what region you were from, and units in the British Army used rifles.

On this week in 1798, Irish-born army officer Edward Marcus Despard was arrested at his home in Soho on suspicion of conspiracy of treason. The London Times reported that the arrest took place ...