Pulaski Day festivities at Chicago's Polish Museum of America honored the "Father of American Cavalry," 280 years after his ...

The American Revolution was about to begin. An engraving of British soldiers entering Concord on ... a farmer who had fought in the French and Indian War. While Leslie was more cautious and ...

The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be ...

In 1781, after six years of fighting, the deciding battle of the Revolution was fought at Yorktown, Virginia. Surrounded by American troops and French warships -- Adams had long fought for a ...

German soldiers in the British service, French allies, and various civilians living in North America, Loyalist as well as Patriot, including many made refugees by the war. The American Revolution ...