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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

V isitors walking Boston’s Freedom Trail pass familiar landmarks — Beacon Hill, the Old North Church, King’s Chapel, and the ...