It was the events on April 19, 1775, celebrated annually as Patriot's Day in Massachusetts, that gave the colonists their first victory against the Crown, and after that there was no turning back: the ...

On February 26, 1775, residents of Salem, Massachusetts, banded together to force the British to withdraw from their town ...

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As tensions grew between American colonists and the British crown, the strategic importance of the largest, wealthiest colony ...

There are a lot of legacies floating around the NCAA tournament bracket. Not every school’s name is as simple as Kentucky or ...

But it does make this figure the sole “Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of ...

Doctor, Jacobite and Brigadier General, Hugh Mercer was a great friend of George Washington. He fought the English and ...

In 1788, a patriot who went under the pseudonym of “Philadelphiensis” — real name, Benjamin Workman — issued a sweeping warning. Should the president decide to impose martial law, “your character of ...

But it does make this figure the sole “Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States ... As the commander in chief of the Army, the American ...

But it does make this figure the sole “Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the ... in chief of the Army, the American president “is in reality ...