An estimated 6,800 Americans were killed in action, and 17,000 more combatants died from diseases like typhus, typhoid, dysentery, and influenza. The British suffered 24,000 casualties from the war, ...

The Continental Army engages the British in the last major battle in the North of the Revolution. A solar eclipse plunges the colonies into darkness in June 1778 as the Continental Army mobilizes from ...

Anyone who has studied the American Revolution knows that some of the most important battles took place in New Jersey. Washington crossed the Delaware River on Christmas night 1776 for a sneak attack ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - Historians are highlighting South Carolina’s role in the American Revolution by bringing the information straight to people’s fingertips through a new digital ...

GREENWOOD COUNTY, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - Ninety Six National Historic Site in Greenwood County hosted an event to commemorate one of the first land battles in the South during the American Revolution.

The Sept. 11, 1777, Battle of Brandywine is a historic event of enormous importance to the United States that has been ignored or at least overlooked, for many years. For sure, from a military ...

" 'Taverns of the American Revolution' presents the boozing and schmoozing that went on in some of America's most historic watering holes, revealing the crucial role these public houses played as ...

The Battle of Long Island took place on Long Island, but (as most Long Islanders know) not exactly. On Aug. 27, 1776, just weeks after the signing of the Declaration of Independence on Aug. 2, the ...

In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its timing feels urgent. Critic’s Notebook In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the ...