Revere, who was later immortalized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous poem, was one of many riders who rode through the ...

Paul Revere was summoned to ride to Lexington, Massachusetts with the news that British soldiers were about to march into the ...

As we approach the 250th anniversary of the “midnight ride” that kicked off the American Revolution, the legacy of Dawes, the other rider who set out from Boston on that fateful night of April ...

About 50 people gathered Saturday at the Old DeKalb Cemetery to honor two local men who played a part in the opening shots of the Revolutionary War 250 years ago. The commemoration, organized by ...

Deborah Sampson was the first woman to ever enlist in the United States military. She did it by pretending to be a man.

With a little help from Paul Revere, she became the first woman to ... She's buried at Rock Ridge Cemetery in Sharon. Her headstone reads 'The Female Solider' and it includes both names - Deborah ...

For 250 years, historians have argued over who fired first at the Battle of Lexington, when Massachusetts militiamen faced British soldiers about 20 miles west of Boston.

Reenactors showed thousands of people the story start of the American Revolutionary War and the "shot heard round the world" on its 250th anniversary.