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

Documentarian Ken Burns and his team discuss their new series exploring the country’s founding and war for independence on this 250th anniversary.

O n the blustery afternoon of February 14, 1781, General Nathanael Greene’s starving, exhausted, and outnumbered army crossed the Dan River, narrowly escaping destruction by a British Army led ...

Gen. Thomas Gage led the British Army in Massachusetts during the war and wrote his famous order launching what was known as the Concord Expedition on April 18, 1775. 7 ...

Andrew O'Shaughnessy, author of [The Men who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire], talked about the role played by British military leaders in the ...

The American Revolutionary War was a struggle for independence by the American colonies against their British rulers. What started with grievances over taxes and lack of representation, exploded ...

Like the Army itself, the NCO Corps did not copy the fundamental roles of just the British Army; ... which was first awarded in 1927. After the American Revolutionary War, ...

The British military invaded Brooklyn with an awesome show of force, landing 15,000 men by noon, on August 22, 1776, marking one of the darkest days of the American Revolution.

The British army, commanded by Gen. Charles Cornwallis, consisted of lads from Britain and Germany. Few had grown up with malaria. Most were highly susceptible.

The British government emerged from the war largely broke and, in an attempt to pay for it, began levying taxes (1763-1765) on the colonists, as well as imposing restrictions on British colonists ...