Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. American colonists and British soldiers exchange fire at the ...
The men who served with him were German, Irish and Scottish settlers. They were fiercely independent frontiersmen, farmers and artisans who had settled in the wilds near the forks of the Allegheny, ...
1775: A GOOD YEAR FOR REVOLUTION By Kevin Phillips Penguin Group, $36, 602 pages If you buy only one history book for the rest of 2013, this should be the one. Book reviewers have long turned such ...
Prologue: England, June 1773-March 1775 -- Part One. God Himself our captain: Boston, March 6-April 17, 1775 -- Men came down from the clouds: Lexington and Concord, April 18-19, 1775 -- I wish this ...
A big anniversary looms, as you may have heard. The American Revolution started 250 years ago, on April 19, 1775, in Lexington and Concord. Cue the fifes and drums. Or maybe you haven’t heard. The ...
KITTANNING -- In April 1775, William Thompson, a man rarely if ever mentioned in American history books, became the first commissioned colonel in the Continental Army of a rifle battalion in the 1st ...
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