Explore major battles, declarations, and treaties from 1765–1783. Learn how colonists defeated the British Empire.

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Military victories were essential in helping America win its independence from Britain. Early successes gave the Patriots ...

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A decade before America’s original No Kings movement, Ben Franklin stood in London before the House of Commons and — while ...

He began his second term by brandishing American hard power, threatening Denmark over the control of Greenland, and ...

President Trump said the truce was holding after lashing out at both countries for seemingly violating the agreement.

By 1978, the Naval market had also begun to pick up and at the end of the 1970s, American shipyards employed 187,000 people in shipyards on all three coasts and the Great Lakes. However, 1981 was ...