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The Battle of Ushant, the first encounter between the French and British fleets in the American Revolutionary War,…
American Revolutionary War: Sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington allegedly rode forty miles (64 km) through the night to war
American Revolutionary War: British Army regulars defeated Patriot militias in the Battle of Ridgefield, galvanizing res
Button Gwinnett, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, is wounded in a duel with Continental Army o
The Second Continental Congress adopted the stars and stripes design for the flag of the United States
American Revolutionary War: American troops at Fort Ticonderoga in New York completed a retreat from advancing British…
American Revolutionary War: British forces caught up with American troops withdrawing from Ticonderoga, capturing more…
American Revolution: The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations became the first of the Thirteen Colonies to
American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison west of Montreal surrendered to British troops at the Battle of
American Revolutionary War: British forces defeated the Continental Army at the Battle of Trois-Rivières, the last battl
American Revolutionary War: The militia of the Province of South Carolina repelled a British attack on Charleston
The first privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War, the Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet, was fought near Cape May,
In Philadelphia, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence (signing pictured), announcing that…
American Revolutionary War: Colonists Paul Revere and William Dawes, later joined by Samuel Prescott, began a midnight r
The American Revolutionary War began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord in the British colony of Massachusetts
American Revolutionary War: A small force of Patriots led by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold captured Fort Ticonderoga i
American Revolutionary War: Delegates from the Thirteen Colonies met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to convene the Secon
American Revolutionary War: Delegates from the Thirteen Colonies met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to convene the Secon
American Revolution: The Committee of Safety of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, adopted the Mecklenburg Resolves, wh
American Revolution: The Committee of Safety of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, adopted the Mecklenburg Resolves, wh