March 17 is officially observed as Evacuation Day in Boston, even though St. Patrick’s Day falls on the same date. Here's the ...

You know about the leprechauns and the Irish and the pot of gold, but did you know that St. Patrick's Day has another ...

Maps and documents from the time reference a barracks built between 1776 and 1777 for the Continental army as it fought the British, the museum said in a statement this week. The structure was ...

As the Revolutionary War spread through every region, those in bondage sided with whichever army promised them personal liberty. The British actively recruited slaves belonging to Patriot masters ...

British Occupation of the Bay, Island, and Town, December 1776–October 1779 (Newport, R.I.: Seafield Press, 1996), p. 46. A Newport native, Waterhouse was the first professor of medicine at Harvard.

On April 26, 1777, during the Revolutionary War, a large British raiding party attacked the American supply depot at Danbury, Connecticut, burning houses and barns and destroying stores of shoes, ...