Contrary to popular perception, the American Revolution wasn’t all muskets, bayonets and Mel Gibson running around with a ...

Old battlefields seem more like parks. Trying to imagine cannon and cries of the wounded? Difficult, but not always. Farmers’ plows unearthed so many Minié balls at Shiloh, the soil turned white.

"The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill" by John Trumbull. The American Revolution was a conflict between Great Britain and its 13 North American colonies, which declared ...

Daniel Morgan leads the British into a trap, securing a crucial victory for the Patriots. Nathanael Greene is dispatched to the South to replace the disgraced Horatio Gates. Despite being outnumbered, ...

The Hudson River and Long Island Sound wrapped around Westchester County's borders like tentacles, ready to fill with the British king’s sails and soldiers to squelch rebellion. It was late summer ...

The British devised a Southern Strategy to regain control of the American colonies, starting with North Carolina. Loyalist forces, numbering around 1,600, were confronted by Patriot militia on their ...

The conflicts that took place elsewhere in the world have receded from our collective imagination, but the American rebellion ...

The story of the American Revolution is often framed as a heroic win over the British government. Brave colonists persevered through horrors like the Boston Massacre to overcome the tyrannical King ...

While hunters and their rifles helped wage psychological warfare, the American victory can actually be attributed to smoothbore muskets.