While many learned about the American Revolution as beginning in the Northeast, some may not know Florida's role in the nation's founding.

And, of course, in our revolution, we were the insurgents and the British were the role of the ... And you don't really have a good fix on who your enemy is, unless you have a lot of human ...

This is not to say the British were motivated by a desire to help slaves; of course they weren’t. But American slaves chose a side in the revolution ... that’s very good news indeed.

“It all starts with those guys on a boat in Charleston ... Enslaved Americans had good reason to side with the British over the Patriots. In late 1775, Dunmore, the royal governor of Virginia ...

British officers, one with a telescope, watch enemy vessels burn during the siege of Gibraltar. In the distance are the white tents of the French and Spanish camp. From Gibraltar, by Roy Adkins ...

west to Concord and some 250 British and 95 colonists were killed or wounded. But no one knows who fired first, or why. And the revolt itself was initially less a revolution than a demand for ...

Along the East River just southwest of Williamsburg lies the historic Wallabout Bay — an inlet on the edge of the Brooklyn Navy Yard where, more than two centuries ago, thousands of U.S ...

The Industrial revolution promoted ... For a few decades in the 19th century British manufactured goods dominated world trade. Most mass manufactured items were produced more efficiently and ...

“Leslie’s Retreat: Salem on the Brink of Revolution” will honor ... the drawbridge was lowered. No shots were fired on that tense Sunday as the British troops were pushed out of Salem.