The story of the pivotal Bushy Run battle where British and colonial soldiers defeated native warriors, enabling them to end the siege of Fort Pitt during Pontiac’s War in August 1763, will hit the ...
CONCORD, Mass. (AP) - Nearly 250 years ago, hundreds of militiamen lined a hillside in Massachusetts and started firing a barrage of musket balls toward retreating British troops, marking the first ...
SALEM — Four days shy of its 250th anniversary, the important but little-known Revolutionary standoff called Leslie’s Retreat played out with similar results Saturday morning on the cold, ice-caked ...
On February 26, 1775, residents of Salem, Massachusetts, banded together to force the British to withdraw from their town during an oft-overlooked encounter known as Leslie’s Retreat “Here … we claim ...