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

American colonists who aligned with the British lost their lands, their reputations and sometimes even their lives ...

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

When U.S. President Donald Trump started talking about annexing Canada to make it the 51st state, people in Castine, Maine, ...

July 1: Cherokee attack the southern frontier. July 4: Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence. It’s worth noting ...

Ken Burns’ The American Revolution debuts on PBS Nov. 16. A tie-in book, The American Revolution: An Intimate History by ...

These negotiations and the ratification of the treaty in January 1784 officially ended the American Revolutionary War. Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning.

THIS year's Philippine Independence Day celebration focuses on the freedom that Filipino forebears struggled for in honor of ...