A quarter of a millennium ago, “Swamp Fox” Francis Marion took on the British empire with a rag-tag group of part-time ...

The British are coming again — this time in friendship. A memorial honoring fallen soldiers from the U.S. and Britain is being dedicated this month, and the venue couldn't be more ironic: Boston's ...

This lesson explores the British Army before and during the American Revolutionary War. The lesson, which features historian and author Don Hagist speaking at the Ame ...

The wreck of what appears to be a British ship destroyed during the siege of Yorktown in 1781 has been discovered in Virginia. Experts from JRS Explorations spotted the wreck, which is believed to be ...

The Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia is opening an exhibition from the perspective of a single British soldier. A life-sized figure of Richard St. George, a British solider during the ...

David Griffin stands on the corner of Prospect and Simcoe streets and gestures out to an expanse of water clearly visible over the rooftops of Oyster Bay. “You can still see the bay from here,” he ...

The British seize Philadelphia, but Washington plans to retake the city at the Battle of Germantown. Following the loss of the Battle of the Brandywine, Continental Congress flees Philadelphia and the ...

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- This weekend, "Occupied Philadelphia" brought history to life with the sights and sounds of 1777. Held annually each fall, it is the Museum of the American ...

Newly discovered documents that were recovered from the drowned body of a patriot pastor shed light on the fight for religious freedom during the Revolutionary War. The water-stained documents, which ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — The end of the final British military presence in Charleston came during the American Revolution as British soldiers left the Holy City on Dec. 14, 1782. In February of 1780, ...

Spain joins the war, but not as an ally of American independence – as an enemy of Britain. In June 1779, Spain joins France in the war against England. As empire with colonies in America, Spain does ...