Next July marks 250 years since a handful of upstart American colonies declared independence from Britain. A war was fought, as we all know, and almost immediately after it was over, Richard Bell ...

See where New Jersey stood 250 years ago as the Battles of Lexington and Concord kicked off the American Revolutionary War.

During the weekend of Oct. 26-28, 1775, no one saw that significance as the British and colonials skirmished at various spots ...

The Revolutionary War began 250 years ago this year, but it would not be until over six years later, for all intents and purposes, that it came to an end with a victory over the British at Yorktown, ...

And then a fiery, Scottish-born captain took the fight to Britain itself. John Paul Jones didn’t just harass British shipping—he invaded British soil. With a crew of rough sailors and a sloop-of-war, ...

A replica of Benjamin West's Reception of the American Loyalists by Great Britain in the Year 1783 appears in the background of this 1812 portrait of English judge John Eardley Wilmot. Public domain ...

Washington probably did stand while crossing Delaware, but not in a rowboat. Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze's 1851 painting Washington Crossing the Delaware during a Press Preview for the Metropolitan Museum ...

** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** After the events at Lexington and ...

Dawn Cournoyer and her 7th-grade class from Conant Middle School visited the Boston Tea Party Ship and Museum and other Revolutionary War sites in Boston, thanks to a grant from the American ...