For enslaved Black Americans living through the Revolutionary War, freedom sometimes meant donning the red coat of the enemy.

The British believed Africans were essentially ... SOLDIER'S POINT OF VIEW "I got into the French army during the colonial period...and first I was a private, then I became a sergeant in the ...

British General Charles Cornwallis ordered the burning of a Continental Army barracks in Colonial Williamsburg in 1781. What he hoped to destroy forever was recently found by archaeologists ...

Known as Leslie’s Retreat, the standoff took place on February 26, 1775, when British Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Leslie led a raid to seize suspected cannons from a makeshift Colonial armory ...

Russian Ambassador Roman Ambarov has honored the volunteers who fought in the Second Anglo-Boer War at a memorial event in ...

See how Idi Amin used lessons learned in the colonial British army to build a powerful dictatorship in Uganda. Through a combination of populist charm and brutal violence, he ruled for eight years ...

He joined the British army, and went into the European ... filled with the voices of Mall Singh and hundreds of other colonial soldiers offering a rare glimpse into their experience of the war.