Unlike the Continental Army, the Navy recruited both free and enslaved blacks from the very start of the Revolutionary War -- partly out of desperation for seamen of any color, and partly because ...

At the height of the French Revolutionary War, a new alliance between France and Spain threatened to overturn British naval supremacy ... the main Spanish battle fleet off Cape St.Vincent ...

During the Revolutionary War ... defeated Britain before Jones and the French fleet saw battle. After the war, the Continental Navy was disbanded, and Jones, in his late 30s, found himself ...

A fully-functional miniature black powder cannon sounds like the dream of many a Wyoming man’s inner 14-year-old. Cheyenne ...

But the war would be long — John ... and openly provided naval assistance. In 1781, after six years of fighting, the deciding battle of the Revolution was fought at Yorktown, Virginia.

A sea captain and namesake of Conyngham Borough so harassed merchant ships that the English hesitated to sail around their ...

The naval arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards unveiled a new underground missile facility on the south coast in footage aired by state television Saturday, two weeks after unveiling an underground ...