Just a few years before America declared independence from Great Britain, pioneers were fighting for what would later become ...

Captain Selah Strong and his wife, Anna "Nancy" Strong, have been long-overlooked for their parts in the Culper Spy Ring, village says.

One of the most important events that occurred during the American Revolution happened here in Halifax County.

The American Revolution reached a new phase when the war came to the sea. By authorizing privateers and embracing maritime ...

The Continental Congress’s success in negotiating a military alliance with France was pivotal to the colonies’ successful ...

Peter Salem was a formerly enslaved man who was freed to fight in the American Revolutionary War. He is credited by many with fatally shooting British Major John Pitcairn during the Battle of Bunker ...

(Editor's Note: The Recorder is featuring a weekly series every Saturday over the next year on the founding of this nation leading up to the 250 th anniversary on July 4, 2026 of the signing of the ...

Historian Sandra Momyer, the retired executive director and archivist at Historic Yellow Springs, sits among the ruins of an America's first military hospital. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Delco to Chesco and ...

British and French warplanes struck an underground facility believed to have been used by Islamic State militants to store weapons and explosives, the U.K. Ministry of Defence confirmed Sunday. The ...

The new proposal would allow young Britons to spend a year in the UK’s armed forces, with the option to enlist for a longer term at its conclusion. The British government is introducing a new “gap ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — British and French warplanes carried out an airstrike in central Syria on an underground facility where members of the Islamic State group are suspected to have stored weapons and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russia's T-14 tanks are considered its best, but they don't seem to have been in Ukraine.Sean Gallup/Getty Images The British ...