On March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd of Boston colonists near the Custom House on King Street. Five ...

Wikimedia Commons The Battle of Monmouth and Molly Pitcher Mary Ludwig Hays was 23 years old when she joined the Continental ...

In order to contextualise the subject, other major global conflicts involving Gibraltar are included. The conference, entitled “Gibraltar in the Second World War and in other global conflicts: the ...

William Thompson, a man rarely if ever mentioned in American history books, became the first commissioned colonel in the ...

We often don't think of 1775 as anything other than the year before the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the ...

Germany's Foreign Office said Tuesday it has summoned the Chinese ambassador to protest after a Chinese warship used a laser ...

The British army targeted the area because they had become "irritated by the rebel resistance," according to the town of ...

On July Fourth, actor Kurt Russell visited a small museum in Massachusetts dedicated to his ancestor, who was killed by ...

The British surrender came as the forces of Washington and his French allies trapped the main part of Cornwallis’s army at Yorktown, a village on the York River in southeastern Virginia. The ...

A UK soldier accused of raping a woman near a controversial British army base in Kenya allegedly attacked a British national, not a Kenyan, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed. In a ...

A former British soldier was sentenced on Tuesday to more than four years in prison for the manslaughter of a Winnipeg businessman in a Toronto bar in August 2023.

A British soldier accused of raping a woman near a controversial army camp in Kenya has been sent back to the UK, as investigations continue, the BBC understands.