On this day in 1776, a fledgling Continental Navy captures HMS Bolton. She was the second British ship to be captured in only two days....

On this day in 1790, a little-known American Patriot passes away. Timothy Bigelow was a founder of Montpelier, Vermont, a Colonel in the...

On or around this day in 1716, a signer of the Declaration of Independence was born. Or maybe his birthday wasn’t in March after all....

On this day in 1775, Patrick Henry gives a stirring speech. You’ve almost certainly heard of this one! Henry closed the speech with the...

On this day in 1776, the British army evacuates Boston. A bedraggled band of colonists had kept the city under siege for nearly a...

On this day in 1783, George Washington brings the so-called Newburgh Conspiracy to an end. The potential military coup had been festering...

On this day in 1776, a public notice appears in Baltimore, Maryland. It beseeches the help of “our humane ladies” in the American cause....

On this day in 1817, an American Patriot passes away. Wentworth Cheswell was the grandson of a slave, and yet he lived life as a free...

On this day in 1770, the Boston Massacre occurs. Five Bostonians are killed by British soldiers. Others are wounded. Tension had been...

On this day in 1775, the American Revolution nearly begins in Salem, Massachusetts. Did you know that the “shot heard ‘round the world”...

On this day in 1777, a nearly forgotten American Revolutionary war hero passes away. Seth Pomeroy was almost 69 years old when the first...

On this day in 1724, the “Sam Adams of the South” is born. You may not know this Patriot’s full name, but you have certainly seen the...

On this day in 1818, President John Adams reflects back on the American Revolution. Was the real Revolution to be found in the battles...

On this day in 1778, George Washington and his army endure an unusually bad week at Valley Forge. A snow storm had just started! The...

On this day in 1777, George Washington issues orders to Nathaniel Sackett, making him director of a new spy ring in the New York area....

On this day in 1779, a group of American patriots holds off a contingent of British soldiers at the Burke County Jail in Georgia, despite...

On this day in 1831, the so-called “Hercules of the Revolution” passes away. Peter Francisco is another of those Patriots whose legacy...

On this day in 1730, William Whipple, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in modern-day Kittery, Maine. Whipple would...

On this day in 1755, Alexander Hamilton is born. “Few figures in American history,” one of his biographers observes, “have aroused such...

On this day in 1781, a mutiny among General “Mad Anthony” Wayne’s soldiers comes to an end. They’d turned over two British spies who were...