Though British commander in chief Gage had hoped to surprise the colonists, Revere’s midnight ride thwarted these plans, warning locals of the soldiers’ impending arrival. The American ...

250 years ago, colonists dumped tens of thousands of pounds of British tea into Boston harbor in an act of defiance of British rule that helped catalyze the American Revolution. On a cold December ...

July 1: Cherokee attack the southern frontier. July 4: Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence. It’s worth noting that two other branches of the military will turn 250 this year as well. The ...

John Adams was born in the American colonies, and grew up as a subject of Great Britain. Beginning in the 1760s, soon after he had finished his legal studies, a series of political events forced ...

UNTIL the decade before the last world war, British policy in the colonies had aimed chiefly at the establishment of order, the extension of the rule of law, the control of abuses, the creation of ...

"[It was] Steuben's ability to bring this army the kind of training and understanding of tactics that made them able to stand toe to toe with the British." The colonists' first chance to display ...

Did 17th-century immigrants to the 13 colonies have modern British accents? First, we need to figure out what a “British accent” is. Accents are pretty complicated things. Linguistically ...

Great Britain was not alone in this line of thinking. The French, Spanish, and Portuguese competed with the British for colonies under the belief that no great nation could exist and be self ...