Before the American Revolution, which everyone knows about, six – count ‘em, six – French and Indian Wars engulfed the region for...
Rhode Island’s Governor Samuel Cranston won election as Rhode Island’s governor 30 times, once twice in one year. No other governor surpassed...
A 13-year-old son of a French baron named Jean-Vincent d’Abaddie de Saint-Castin arrives in Maine in 1665 to quell the Iroquois and...
In 1676, Richard Waldron of Dover, N.H., received an unwelcome order from Massachusetts. King Philip’s War was winding down and a group...
William Kidd supposedly buried treasure off the Connecticut coast before sailing to Boston in 1699. There, he thought, he would receive clemency...
Late in the 17th century, Elisha Hutchinson made a startling announcement: Soldiers fighting King William’s War in French Quebec would be paid...