British troops and loyalists fled Boston by ship for Canada in "disgrace" after nearly a decade of occupation that incited protest, bloodshed and then revolution, on this day in history, March 17, ...

For enslaved Black Americans living through the Revolutionary War, freedom sometimes meant donning the red coat of the enemy.

Delegates from all thirteen colonies convene for the Second Continental Congress at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia. The representatives remain divided — some hopeful for reconciliation ...

One year after a remarkable American victory over the British in the Revolutionary War, residents of Charleston held a public celebration. The commemoration, organized by The Palmetto Society ...

This image provided by Colonial Williamsburg Foundation shows bricks that were believed to be part of military barracks during the American Revolution at an archaeological dig at Colonial Williamsburg ...

We know the marquee names of the American Revolutionary War. George Washington. Alexander Hamilton, whose name has been lit in lights on Broadway for 10 years. But in the fight for this country’s ...

Deborah Sampson covered her chest with a tight piece of cloth, adopted a man's name and enlisted in the Continental Army's elite light infantry in 1782. For 17 months, she marched through the Hudson ...

Museum curator Nikki Walsh holds up two Revolutionary War musket balls, which are believed to have been fired at the British by colonial militia men, at Minute Man National Historical Park, Monday, ...