Don Wildman hops across the Atlantic from American History Hit to Echoes of History to help Matt Lewis understand how two tiny towns became the spark that lit the fire of the American War of ...

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Mechanical Arts & Numismatics Senior Curator Erik Goldstein provided a brief history of research into the weapons used in the fight for American independence. This ...

How many of these Declaration of Independence facts do you know? As the 4th of July nears, Americans may be curious about the ...

While John Adams called for a declaration of independence in the Continental ... another English declaration of war, the French had been supporting the American army in secret.

The Battle of Jersey was the only battle of the American War of Independence fought in Europe.This Indian style fighting knife was brought to the Island by an Indian mercenary, Mir Sayyad, who was ...

Edward III of England was forced to recognise Bruce's kingship and Scotland's independence. The war was won. Bruce retired to his house in Cardross near Loch Lomond and died a year later.

The Blackwater Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) held a dedication ceremony on Wednesday for a new sign ...

The US may have fought the Revolutionary War (the one we call the American War of Independence) to rid themselves of British royal rule but they have never shed their enduring fascination with the ...

Thus, after “a long train of abuses,” when political rulers make their “design visible” for all to see, they “put themselves into a state of war ... the American struggle for independence?

Unlike the Ten Years' War, the Cuban Independence Movement of the 1890s ... The Civil War was over, the American west had been settled, and immigration was at record heights.