But with the American Revolution, which began 250 years ago ... Hancock was one of the wealthiest men in the colonies, and a major financier of the patriot cause. Adams had helped plan the Boston ...

the American Revolution brought limited change. From the outset, many colonists opposed it or were indifferent. After the war, the U.S. began rebuilding economic and diplomatic ties with Britain.

The most famous midnight ride in American ... 1775 after the outbreak of the war and was joined by her husband a couple of months later. She would eventually outlive him by 36 years. Major William ...

Thousands of people from all over flocked to Lexington and Concord on Saturday, taking in reenactments of the first fights of ...

Just after dawn on the Lexington Battle Green ... Philadelphia’s ‘Liberty’ exhibit spotlights role of people of color in American Revolution The regulars would head to Concord but not ...

he proposed marking the anniversary with a yearlong “Great American State Fair,” complete with “patriot games” for high school athletes. And last November, barely a week after winning re ...

Everyone knows how the redcoats clashed with patriots at Lexington and Concord in April 1775, sparking the American Revolution ... It began after Patrick Henry convinced the conservative tobacco ...