The American Revolution began 250 years ago, in a blast of gunshot and a trail of colonial spin.Starting with Saturday's anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the country looked back to ...

Saturday marks the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the American Revolutionary War with the "shot heard 'round the world ...

After the fights at Lexington and Concord's North Bridge, the British column had to return to Boston. On its way, the regulars were set upon by hundreds, then thousands, of armed militiamen hell bent ...