Hackensack Revolutionary War hero statue erected in 1904 will finally get its sword back
The sword will soon be replaced as part of a restoration project by the Sons of the American Revolution and Hackensack.
The story of a Black Revolutionary War hero who took on an entire British platoon lives on
The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the ...
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These Black Soldiers Fought for the British During the American Revolution in Exchange for Freedom From Slavery
For enslaved Black Americans living through the Revolutionary War, freedom sometimes meant donning the red coat of the enemy.
How Deborah Sampson posed as a man to fight in the Revolutionary War (and treated her own gunshot wound)
In the annals of Revolutionary War soldiers, Massachusetts was full of notable figures. But there were none quite like ...
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A Revolutionary War
On April 19, 1775, Paul Revere and William Dawes rode from Boston to Lexington to alert the Minute Man — the colonial ... German soldiers-for-hire. A crucial turning point in the war came ...
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Revolutionary War barracks burned by the British discovered in Colonial Williamsburg
Archaeologists in Colonial Williamsburg have discovered the remains of barracks along with artifacts, including chewed on lead bullets, dating back to the Revolutionary War. Eighteenth-century ...
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As the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War approaches, Lexington and Concord remain in dispute
LEXINGTON — On April 19, 1775, the Revolutionary ... from thousands of colonial militia who were joining the fight from all over. There was no question that the war had begun.