It’s one of the biggest conspiracy theories surrounding the American Revolutionary War. The most famous midnight ride in American history occurred 250 years ago Friday when Sons of Liberty members ...

Historians have debated whether the New Jersey-born wife of a British general was the one who leaked his orders and set the ...

The militiamen who stood in defiance on Lexington Green are the first who fired upon the British regulars, but the road to ...

General Thomas Gage, British commander in chief for North America in the years leading up to the Revolution ... after fighting in the Seven Years War. During that service he married a beautiful ...

When British troops went to seize arms stockpiled by American colonists at Concord, Massachusetts, they could have had little ...

When news of the Boston Tea Party reached England, British general Thomas Gage was on leave from ... was set for the first battles of the American Revolution.

As Saturday marks 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's ride, an exhibit at UM's Clements Library sheds light on Revere, other ...