The battles, which emerged from a gathering revolutionary crisis, predicted the outcome of the war: the victory of the ...

April 2025 marks 250 years since the famous "shot heard round the world" was fired, beginning a chain of events that resulted in the establishment of a new American nation. The militiamen who ...

Samuel Whittemore lived until he was 96, dying on February 2, 1793, shortly before George Washington was inaugurated for his ...

This week marks the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, where Massachusetts minutemen fought on April 18-19, 1775, to defend these towns against British soldiers who tried ...

Captain John Parker’s Lexington militia company returning fire on British light infantry who ... Courtesy of the Museum of the American Revolution. This fowling piece (middle) carried by Robert ...

The irony of the moment does not escape Revolutionary ... American Colonies that contributed to the revolt in 1775. Murray, who lives in Leicester, dons the characteristic red coat of the British ...

In October 1774, British ... the struggle for American independence had begun. Thirty-four Army National Guard units and one Regular Army unit carry their lineage back to the Revolutionary War.

Under cover of darkness, in the early hours of 19 April 1775, a force of British soldiers was on the move. General Thomas Gage, the British Commander in Boston, Massachusetts, had learned the American ...