The anniversary of the outbreak of the Revolutionary War precedes a slew of planned celebrations when the United States marks ...

Historians have debated whether the New Jersey-born wife of a British general was the one who leaked his orders and set the militia into action 250 years ago.

That whole thing about "no taxation without representation"? Those taxes were mostly import duties on goods imported from Britain.

Punishments in Australian penal colonies were deadly! Scientists discover surprising link between menthol and Alzheimer's Scientists discover that there once were beaches on Mars US no longer to ...

Parts of the UK could see temperatures skyrocket to 23C later this month, new weather maps suggest ... 16 as a mini-heatwave arrives across the British Isles. The heat looks set to return the ...

Before describing the part played by the British Colonies in the war, however, I should like to explain briefly just what they are. I found during a recent tour of the United States that there was ...

A rare glimpse into American history has been unearthed: a never-before-seen British military outpost has surfaced on the Florida coast. Archaeologists in St. Augustine on the Northeast coast of ...

The Commonwealth came into existence as a means of retaining links with former British colonies, so there is a certain historical justification for the idea. Almost all of Britain’s former colonies ...

The Commonwealth came into existence as a means of retaining links with former British colonies, so there is a certain historical justification for the idea. Almost all of Britain’s former ...

The Commonwealth came into existence as a means of retaining links with former British colonies, so there is a certain historical justification for the idea. Almost all of Britain’s former ...