Test your knowledge of the American Revolution with this quiz! Answer questions on key events, figures, and causes, including the Boston Tea Party, Thomas Jefferson, and the fight for independence.

Though World War II ended when Japan surrendered on August 15, 1945, most people don’t realise that the battles continued for ...

He concluded, he later wrote, that the troops were “ exceeding dirty & nasty people ” led by indifferent officers with an “ unaccountable kind of stupidity .” But the war would change Washington’s ...

Historians have put together an app that guides users to significant sites around the city, just in time for the 250th ...

In the early months of the American Revolution, Daniel Morgan and his soldiers raced north to join the Continental Army during the so-called Beeline March ...

Before there was a nation, there was the Army. The United States Army began on June 14, 1775, as the Continental Congress ...

The USPS has also released a commemorative sheet of 20 interconnected stamps, dubbed “250 Years of Delivering,” that portray ...

California’s court fight to reign in the president's use of troops in Los Angeles now hangs on a 19th century law with grim origins and a Spaghetti Western-sounding moniker.

The Declaration of Independence condemns King George III for having “burnt our towns.” But the British were not to blame for ...

He plays fast and loose with the chronology, and the uninitiated could get lost in the long series of failed rebellions and ...