On this day in 1781, British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his army of about 8,000 men to General George Washington at Yorktown. Cornwallis marched his army into the Virginia port town ...

By the Revolutionary War in the late 1770s, those marking the anniversary of St. Patrick’s death on March 17 included Irish ...

And then a fiery, Scottish-born captain took the fight to Britain itself. John Paul Jones didn’t just harass British shipping—he invaded British soil. With a crew of rough sailors and a sloop-of-war, ...

Somerset County played a pivotal role in the American Revolution. Explore the sites where history was made.

What started in 2019 as a suburban home renovation became the discovery of skeletal remains, believed to be of Revolutionary ...