On Jan. 24, 1776, Henry Knox, a bold, portly bookseller and former Bostonian, solved the first problem. Having seized Fort Ticonderoga, in upstate New York, he and his men dragged the garrison’s ...

Boston King had been born a slave in South Carolina. Boston King escaped from slavery to join the British forces during the American Revolution. (As portrayed by Derwin Jordan in Canada ...

[P]eace was restored between America and Great Britain, which diffused universal joy among all parties, except us, who had escaped from slavery, and taken refuge in the English army; for a report ...

Almost 300 years after the Revolutionary War, the Commonwealth is still Boston strong. While your friends and family may be ...

Courtesy: Library of Congress In 1773, when the colonists of Massachusetts staged the Boston Tea Party in Boston ... declared independence. Early in 1776, King George consented to the hiring ...