In celebration of America's 250th, the Portsmouth Athenaeum's 2026 Lecture Series is "The Spirit of 1776: Revolution, Constitution, Independence." ...
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A Quaker woman eavesdropped on British soldiers plotting a surprise attack—and surreptitiously warned George Washington
During the American Revolution, women across the Thirteen Colonies took on a range of nontraditional roles. Some assumed ...
Discover Peter Wentz Farmstead in Worcester Township, where George Washington planned key movements during the 1777 ...
A ceremony was held atop wind-swept Dorchester Heights on Tuesday to commemorate the anniversary of the British evacuation of ...
George Washington had a problem in the winter of 1777. Smallpox was devastating the already undermanned Continental Army, and ...
Reenactors in 18th-century military coats and tricorn hats filled the pews of one of the nation’s oldest Catholic Churches on Tuesday before firing muskets outside and marching through neighborhood ...
Pawtucket Rangers Militia reenactors assemble in an Evacuation Day ceremony marking the 1776 departure of British troops from ...
Virginia eventually seized and sold off an estimated 53,000 acres, plus personal property, which in some cases included enslaved Africans.
The raid to seize British gunpowder and weapons partially avenges Lord Dunmore’s seizure of gunpowder from Williamsburg.
As the United States approaches its 250th birthday, we are reminded by the American Revolution that the nation's independence ...
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