A Miniature History of the American Revolution

One of the best known images of the opening of the Revolutionary War at Lexington, Massachusetts, is the iconic engraving, below, created by...

One of the most remarkable images of Revolutionary War combat is a naïve-art painting of a skirmish on the island of St. Kitts on January 28...

In early September, 1775 , Major-General Philip Schuyler led an American army into southern Canada. It was the first American offensive of t...

Organization Like other French infantry regiments, Agénois consisted of two battalions (both of which served in America). Each battalion con...

The American Revolutionary War began on April 19, 1775, when a British force based in Boston, Massachusetts, tried to seize the stores of th...

The first two American movements against Fort Saint-Jean ended in disappointment (cf. here and here . On the third attempt, however, the Am...

In 1775, the colony of New York raised four regiments of infantry and one company of artillery. These troops were assigned to the army comma...