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Was This Little-Known Standoff Between British Soldiers and Colonists the Real Start of the American Revolution?
On February 26, 1775, residents of Salem, Massachusetts, banded together to force the British to withdraw from their town ...
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French and British Colonial Styles
The British believed Africans were essentially ... SOLDIER'S POINT OF VIEW "I got into the French army during the colonial period...and first I was a private, then I became a sergeant in the ...
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Archaeologists Accidentally Found the Incredible Lost Remnants of America's First Soldiers
British General Charles Cornwallis ordered the burning of a Continental Army barracks in Colonial Williamsburg in 1781. What he hoped to destroy forever was recently found by archaeologists ...
250 years later, British ‘troops’ retreat again from Salem
Four days shy of its 250th anniversary, the important but little-known Revolutionary standoff called Leslie’s Retreat played ...
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KS4 / GCSE History: Audio recording from Mall Singh - a colonial soldier captured in World War One
He joined the British army, and went into the European ... filled with the voices of Mall Singh and hundreds of other colonial soldiers offering a rare glimpse into their experience of the war.