Rain pours down on 40 redcoats in the Monterey woods. The British Army peers through the fog, aiming their muskets at 20 Continental Army soldiers. Sergeants yell orders to their men, who somehow ...

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

(Editor's note: This story uses the term black as opposed to African-American. America itself was only beginning to emerge as an identity during the Revolution. Most people thought of themselves as ...

PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. -- It was November of 1776 and for Gen. George Washington and his Continental Army the prospects of establishing a new country apart from British rule was looking bleak. After ...

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, ...

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 ...

Newark Advocate history columnist Doug Stout continues the stories of three Licking County men who fought under Gen. George ...

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 ...

The Carolina Corps achieved emancipation through military service, paving the way for future fighters in the British Empire to do the same Kinsey Gidick An 1812 illustration of a private from the ...