The King has met with one of the last surviving veterans of the D-Day landings. Jim Glennie - now 99 - was an 18-year-old soldier when ... the story of the British army regiment, which was ...

Colonel Tye was perhaps the best-known of the Loyalist black soldiers ... British commandant of the city of New York, created a list of claimants known as The Book of Negroes. Boston King and ...

Boston King escaped from slavery to join the British forces during the American ... 1784 affair. "The disbanded soldiers have risen against the free negroes to drive them out of town, because ...

Meanwhile, a confused group of British soldiers had spent the night organizing on Boston Common ... "If you ever live to get back, you tell King George that an old woman took six of his ...

An Irishman who was a victim in the Boston ... King Street after hearing the sound of the bell, which usually indicated a fire. He happened upon a chaotic scene between a street mob and British ...