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 ...

Four days shy of its 250th anniversary, the important but little-known Revolutionary standoff called Leslie’s Retreat played out in a reenactment.

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 ...

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.