Revolutionary War

A Revolutionary War colonel defending Fort Morris in Georgia, John McIntosh, found himself outnumbered and surrounded by redcoats in 1778.

This 34-mile stretch parallels one of the most famous rivers in the country and passes an array of Revolutionary War–era architecture.

It would have meant the end of the Revolutionary War and a total loss for the Americans.

In past lives, the area served as the location of the Battle of Long Island during the Revolutionary War.

This was a tethered reconnaissance balloon, as first used 220 years ago in the French Revolutionary War.

In this Newcastle Brown Ale ad, gangly British comedian Stephen Merchant posits, ‘What if the Brits won the Revolutionary War?’

Inside the colonnade there were supposed to be statues of 30 famous Revolutionary War heroes.

During the revolutionary war he was commissary-general to the Pennsylvania division, and printer to congress.

In vain did the old governments expect to step back into exactly the same places they had occupied before the revolutionary war.

During this same year, a most unusual naval feat occurred in the Revolutionary War.

Marquis de Lafayette played an important part in the Revolutionary War.

His services were of great benefit to the commander in chief during a part of the revolutionary war.