Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “Paul Revere’s Ride” begins, “Listen, my children …” And, sure enough, we have long told ...

The anniversary of the outbreak of the Revolutionary War precedes a slew of planned celebrations when the United States marks ...

Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 19, 1775, British troops faced off against colonial militias in the Massachusetts ...

The late General Maxwell Mitikishi Khobe, the ECOMOG brave soldier, who led the ECOMOG forces to reinstate Sierra Leone’s ...

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.

Historians have debated whether the New Jersey-born wife of a British general was the one who leaked his orders and set the militia into action 250 years ago.

VE Day will be honoured and remembered with dedicated programming across TV, iPlayer, Radio and Sounds marking the 80th ...

Inside the steeple of Old North Church and among the Southern Colonies, less familiar stories of the events from 250 years ...