Spain joins the war, but not as an ally of American independence – as an enemy of Britain. In June 1779, Spain joins France in the war against England. As empire with colonies in America, Spain does ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Historian and author Don Hagist provided opening remarks to begin his lecture about the British Army before and during the Revolutionary War. The ...

The American Revolution was a conflict between Great Britain and its 13 North American colonies, which declared independence as the United States of America. The seeds of the war were the growing ...

New York City area waterways gave British forces a strong position in key Westchester faceoffs against American troops in the Revolutionary War.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — The end of the final British military presence in Charleston came during the American Revolution as British soldiers left the Holy City on Dec. 14, 1782. In February of 1780, ...

The inspiration for this article came from an April 21, 2025, piece by guest author Kevin Wilkins for Vintage Aviation News titled “The American Airfields Where British Pilots Learned to Fly.” To wit: ...

Tensions had been building between the American colonists and the British government for more than a decade before the “shot heard ‘round the world” was fired at the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

Ken Burns’ new PBS series, The American Revolution, reframes the founding war as a brutal, chaotic conflict fought on multiple fronts and driven by impossible odds. From fractured command to ...