From the bravery of the Massachusetts minutemen to the famous midnight ride of Paul Revere to the very first battle of the Revolutionary War, Massachusetts was a host for several key happenings during ...

The next day, the colonists were under constant fire from British cannons on Bunker Hill and Mystic River, ultimately winning the battle by sinking one of the British cannons on the river with ...

Just two months after the battle at North Bridge, Putnam’s leadership at Bunker Hill proved citizen volunteers could fight with deadly effect. Though the British eventually took the hill ...

When British troops went to seize arms stockpiled by American colonists at Concord, Massachusetts, they could have had little ...

In new book 'A Promised Land,' history professor Adam Jortner looks at the role of Jews - then just 0.1% of the population - ...

The Battle of Bunker Hill is represented by an illustration showing the second British assault on Breed's Hill on June 17, 1775, from the perspective of the defending Americans, alongside a ...

62-cal. bore. Gordon later died from wounds received during the Battle of Bunker Hill. Fort Ticonderoga Museum Collection, The Robert Nittolo Collection. Concord minuteman Amos Barrett remembered ...

took part in the Battle of Bunker Hill and continued to serve in the Continental Army until 1783. Most people didn’t know that there were three Black soldiers from Lexington who fought that ...

In the following decade, after the colonies had won independence ... his loyalty to King George III after the bloody Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775. Yet he eventually switched sides.

Each recruit had to be a good shot be able to ride anything in the line of horseflesh, a rough and ready fighter, and above ...

One such submission is that the boy be hung by the ankles from a tree out in the desert, where the animal kingdom can take ...