Algeria's government proposed a law to streamline military mobilization amid tensions with neighboring countries Morocco and ...

It's the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, and it's still not clear who fired the first shot of the ...

Reenactments, parades and other festivities in two Massachusetts communities mark 250 years since the "shot heard 'round the ...

York County now was up to the top of its boots in America’s Revolution. That initial call for a unit of York County riflemen ...

In the mid-afternoon of April 19, 1775, a group of men from the American colonies prepared to ambush retreating British soldiers near Hartwell Tavern in Lincoln, Massachusetts.

It’s less than two months until the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, one of the most important battles of the ...

The battles, which emerged from a gathering revolutionary crisis, predicted the outcome of the war: the victory of the ...

BUT THEN THE FIRST SHOT WAS FIRED AND THE BATTLE ... On April 19, 1775, Gage sent 800 British soldiers to Concord to seize and destroy a colonial stockpile of supplies. The Sons of Liberty ...

Not a single British soldier ... British and colonial accounts and statements preserved by the Library of Congress — leans in that direction. It’s likely the first shot came from the British ...

The 250th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord kicks off what local historians hope will be many events to ...