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

While their images might not be immortalized on dollar bills or their stories ingrained into every high school syllabus, these lesser-known figures nonetheless played critical roles in the shaping of ...

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

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

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

The Revolutionary War artifacts tell the story of what General Cornwallis tried to destroy forever—but couldn’t erase.

At the beginning of the American Revolution, colonists did not have an army.They relied on militias not as well trained as the British army and its allies. To defeat them, the colonists decided ...