Two and a half centuries ago, in a Pittsfield tavern, three men discussed plans for a secret raid that would become America’s ...

In the chaos of WWI, Germany helped Vladimir Lenin return home in a calculated gamble to set off a revolution and remove ...

French troops in Scotland enforcing Catholicism and promoting the claim of Mary Queen of Scots to the English throne, forced Elizabeth I to agree to an unofficial naval expedition to neutralize and ...

Shortly after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War a rash of uncommissioned ‘pirateers’ began to operate from the Leeward Islands. The admiral commanding the squadron, James Young, took a ...

THE PHILIPPINE banking sector’s assets rose by 8% year on year as of end-February, preliminary data from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) showed. Philippine banks’ combined assets increased by ...

LEXINGTON, Mass. -- Tens of thousands of people came to Lexington, Massachusetts, just before dawn on Saturday to witness a reenactment of how the American Revolution began 250 years ago ...

The Museum of the American Revolution on Saturday unveiled the largest exhibit of Revolutionary War flags in more than two centuries, featuring about half of the 30 flags still known to exist. The ...

They returned fire with what Ralph Waldo Emerson described as the shot heard round the world, and they began a revolution that ... of protests nationwide since February. "Our movement shows ...