It was a strange and potentially alarming sight: an egg-shaped, odd-looking vessel being towed by an inflatable boat and foundering in a security zone near the docked Queen Mary 2. In the end, the ...

Boston’s long-simmering rebellion against Britain ended in remarkable victory following a dramatic 11-month siege by New Englanders against the Redcoats in the port city.

Thomas Paine published "Common Sense" on this day in history, Jan. 10, 1776. He savaged monarchies, inspired the colonies to rebellion and sold the equivalent of 66 million copies today.

On Independence Day in 1776, one year after Paul Revere made his famous journey on horseback to warn the colonial minutemen that the British were coming, the Declaration of Independence was signed.

NEW YORK -- It was during the dog days of August when the British launched a massive attack to smash the rebellion spreading through the colonies. Landing from ships on the Brooklyn shore, 15,000 ...

You have a number of scholars and intellectuals who make a good living by critiquing the Cuban Revolution of 1959, by critiquing the Russian Revolution of 1917, by critiquing the French Revolution ...

The ferocious bayonet charges prevented two wings of the advancing redcoats from attacking the 10,000 Americans — outnumbered about 2 to 1 — who had retreated to Brooklyn Heights.

In "1776," David McCullough tells the story of what happened after the Minuteman chased the Redcoats out of Bedford in April of 1775. McCullough's wonderful writing and timely narrative were a ...

Robert Dunkerly, author of "Redcoats on the River," will give a lecture on the Revolutionary War on the Lower Cape Fear at 1 p.m. Saturday on the battlefield.

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