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With Saturday’s anniversary, the United States is looking back to its war of independence and asking where its legacy stands ...
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If seeing a musket turn a nice, ripe honeydew into fruit salad at 60 yards is your idea of fun, “Revolutionary War Weapons” may not be the show for you: What accomplishes the melon assassinati ...
camps and combat outposts in some of the Revolutionary War-era defenses tested by "NOVA." Wooden, dirt-filled gabions were the old-timey forerunner to today's Hesco barriers that still protect ...
A guided tour of Lexington homes that date back to the Revolutionary War takes place on Saturday, April 12. The four-hour tour will visit about 20 homes, with interior stops at four of them.
Much of South Carolina’s Revolutionary War history is tied to places like Kings Mountain and Cowpens, battles that shifted the course of the conflict and played a nationally recognized role in ...
During the event, an excerpt from Biles’ personal account of his service in the Revolutionary War was read aloud. Biles detailed his enlistment in 1776 and his service under various captains ...
On Saturday, the Alliance for Historic Hillsborough put on their annual Revolutionary War Living History Day, better known as “Rev War Day.” At the Orange County Historical Museum, a new ...
North Andover Historical Society museum educator David Blauvelt will highlight some of the area’s Revolutionary War heroes who are buried in the First and Second Old Burial Grounds and how their ...
The Abraham Baldwin Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution recently announced the release of its “250th Celebration Coloring Book,” commemorating 17 Carroll County patriots who ...
On the eve of the Revolutionary War, there were more than 400,000 people of African descent in the 13 Colonies, accounting for approximately one-fifth of the nonindigenous population. The vast ...
Longtime Apple Valley resident Ann Bailey will retire as president of DARTS, a community-based nonprofit dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for older adults and caregivers, effective July 2025 ...