While in conversation with author and journalist Mark Whitaker, author Becky Aikman talked about how the American women pilots who volunteered to ferry warplanes for the British military during World ...

The British military invaded Brooklyn with an awesome show of force, landing 15,000 men by noon, on August 22, 1776, marking one of the darkest days of the American Revolution.

On October 19, 1781, Cornwallis surrendered his battered army to the Americans — the British strategies had failed. This article was adapted from a previous version published in History of War ...

Leslie’s Retreat, writes Hoffer, “was not a victory of American troops over British troops. It was a victory of citizens claiming their own over the military doing its duty.” ...

FORT SILL, Okla. (Oct. 13, 2011) -- In September, the Fort Sill Field Artillery Museum added a British light infantry 3-pounder to its artillery collection, about 130 years after the American ...

Stephen Conway, The British Army, “Military Europe,” and the American War of Independence, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 1 (January 2010), pp. 69-100 ...

The Battle of Cowpens (Jan. 17, 1781): A crucial turning point in 1781 as American forces successfully regained control of South Carolina, leading to the defeat of the British.

The Carolina Corps wasn’t the first Black military unit to serve the crown. During the Seven Years’ War, which spanned 1756 to 1763, the British recruited enslaved and free Black men from the ...

The Continental Army, created in June of 1775, had warily welcomed its new leader, George Washington, without much fuss. A ...

Here are the five greatest British military failures: Saratoga: Imagine an entire U.S. Army brigade surrendering to the Taliban, and now you grasp the impact of the Battle of Saratoga in 1777.

Here are the five greatest British military failures: Saratoga: Imagine an entire U.S. Army brigade surrendering to the Taliban, and now you grasp the impact of the Battle of Saratoga in 1777.

It must be baldly stated: Germany would have won World War I had the U.S. Army not intervened in France in 1918. The French and British were barely hanging on in 1918. By year-end 1917, France had ...