On Jan. 24, 1776, Henry Knox, a bold, portly bookseller and former Bostonian, solved the first problem. Having seized Fort Ticonderoga, in upstate New York, he and his men dragged the garrison’s ...

or a tale of colonial-style mineral appropriation from the US. What it certainly is is decidedly odd. Then again, there is a long history of curious stories such as these cropping up at moments ...

The vast majority of Nigerians after the amalgamation in 1914 continued to live their lives as before without noticeable change traceable to the imposition of colonial rule. The most noticeable ...

Estimates place the number of honeybee colonies worldwide at 102 million and the total number of managed beehives at about 100 million. Each hive contains anywhere from 10,000 to 60,000 bees.

Abigail was an early champion of equal rights and in a letter of March 1776 to John ... with the Revolutionary Army” (accessed 2018) The Colonial Williamsburg Official History and Citizenship ...