On March 17, 1776, British troops and loyalist civilians began evacuating Boston as approximately 11,000 soldiers and more ...

The British evacuated Boston in 120 vessels, taking with them some 1,100 loyalists. The retreat represented the end of a ...

March 17, which many think of simply as St. Patrick's Day, also marks the 250 years since the Redcoats left Boston. Why this is a key date in American history ...

A ceremony was held atop wind-swept Dorchester Heights on Tuesday to commemorate the anniversary of the British evacuation of ...

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 ...

George Washington had a problem in the winter of 1777. Smallpox was devastating the already undermanned Continental Army, and ...

In celebration of America's 250th, the Portsmouth Athenaeum's 2026 Lecture Series is "The Spirit of 1776: Revolution, Constitution, Independence." ...

On March 17, 1776, the Continental Army under Gen. George Washington forced British troops to evacuate Boston.

During the American Revolution, women across the Thirteen Colonies took on a range of nontraditional roles. Some assumed ...

Inoculation effectively eliminated smallpox as a threat to American troops, ending outbreaks that had removed large numbers of soldiers from service.

The Declaration of Independence contained within it a revolutionary idea so powerful that it launched the democratic era and ...

Today, as we celebrate the country’s 250th birthday, the nation is also grappling with the proper role of border patrol, the National Guard, and regular military forces in American communities. The ...