The British military invaded Brooklyn with an awesome show of force, landing 15,000 men by noon, on August 22, 1776, marking one of the darkest days of the American Revolution.

Battle of Long Island (Aug. 27, 1776): The British captured New York, ... As the war went on, key wins showed the American forces were capable of standing up to the powerful British army.

Of the battles on Long Island, none were as big as the 1776 engagement fought in Brooklyn, where George Washington and his green army were thoroughly whipped by a massive British force that went ...

British troops hanged 21-year-old Nathan Hale on this day in 1776 during the Revolutionary War. The former schoolteacher and native of Connecticut served as a captain in the Continental Army.

A French military flintlock pistol, the Mòdele 1763 was used during the French-Indian War and to a lesser extent during the Revolutionary War. It is similar to the British Light Dragoon pistol ...

On Sept. 15, 1776, British forces occupied New York in the Revolutionary War.In 1789 the Department of Foreign Affairs was renamed the Department of State. Also in 1789 novelist James Fenimore ...

Professor Benjamin Carp talks about some of the advantages and disadvantages for both the British and American forces during the American Revolution. He also described how individual personalities ...

This class was from a course called "The Revolutionary Generation." Professor Benjamin Carp talks about some of the advantages and disadvantages for both the British and American forces during the ...