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 ...

As the Revolutionary War spread through every region ... And I hereby further declare all indented servants, Negroes, or others (appertaining to Rebels) free, that are able and willing to bear ...

During the Battle of Brooklyn, the war nearly came to an end ... “Every step being up to our Knees in Mud . . . raining on us all the way.” The barefoot men were soaked to the bone, and ...

Patrick Mantle, an East Rockaway, N.Y., history buff, needs a few good men and women—and even children—to fill the ranks of the Huntington Militia. Mantle isn’t some radical firebrand.

marking the first major battle in the Revolutionary War. The latest evidence of that firefight is five musket balls dug up last year near the North Bridge site in the Minute Man National ...

For most Americans of the time, the Revolutionary War was a struggle for freedom and ... famously helped at the Battle of Springfield, New Jersey, in 1780. Upon noticing that the company had ...