New England Minutemen, some dressed for war in their finest clothes and at least one fellow wearing his wedding suit, fought the Revolutionary War’s first battles against British soldiers at ...

The irony of the moment does not escape Revolutionary War reenactor Justin Murray, a 33-year-old eighth grade civics teacher ...

[music playing] These events marked the opening of what would become known as the French and Indian War. The outnumbered ... with a much larger force under British General, Edward Braddock.

The French and Indian War is one of those conflicts we learned ... In the fall of 1754, a group of British Army officers gathered there with Ohio Iroquois, Delaware and Shawnee leaders to renew ...

The British, he noted, were just wrapping up the French and Indian War in 1763 and were struggling ... It’s a question of safety because the soldiers use authentic period weapons and live ...

Samuel Whittemore lived until he was 96, dying on February 2, 1793, shortly before George Washington was inaugurated for his ...

After the fights at Lexington and Concord's North Bridge, the British column had to return to Boston. On its way, the ...

The battles, which emerged from a gathering revolutionary crisis, predicted the outcome of the war: the victory of the ...

Inside the steeple of Old North Church and among the Southern Colonies, less familiar stories of the events from 250 years ...

More precisely, they began in the aftermath of the 1763 Treaty of Paris, which ended the Seven Years’ War — what was once referred to as the French and Indian ... forts the British had ...

Paul Revere embarked upon his famous midnight ride on April 18, 1775, dashing from Boston toward Lexington and Concord to ...