By the outbreak of the American Revolution, the militia had thrown in its lot with the Continental Congress and would go on to fight in several Revolutionary War battles. Re-enactors like Mantle ...

The Revolutionary War was America’s first true military test.  The Boston Tea Party helped start the Revolutionary War. ...

A Hillsdale home built by a pre-Revolution British militia captain with Tory ties ... the war's immense cost led Britain to ...

History tells us the first shot of the American Revolutionary War was fired early on the morning of April 19, 1775, by ...

Adams knew the American Revolution had to build up a new government ... to Lexington to alert the Minute Man — the colonial militia — that the British were on their way to Concord to ...

As early as the 1650s, enslaved Africans escaped into the American wilderness to form their ... the Georgia assembly to send a detachment of militia after them. During the Revolutionary War ...

CANFIELD TOWNSHIP — This summer, the Mahoning Valley Sons of the American Revolution will ... a sergeant in the Revolutionary Militia,” said Bruce Neff, a descendant of Conrad.

Between the tents, men and women in Colonial garb scurried in various directions. An older man sang a song. The re-enactors from the nonprofit Ye Olde Towne Lebanon Militia were starting their day.

December 13, we celebrate the birthday of the National Guard, the oldest military organization in the United States. Its origins date back to December 13 ...