The past is a foreign country. Once upon a time I drove up through Maine and across the border into the wilds...
The Penobscot Expedition during the American Revolution was the worst naval disaster in American history until Pearl Harbor. That a huge force...
Tobias Gilmore, an African-American soldier in the American Revolution, left a legacy that includes a cannon left to the Town of Taunton,...
A British naval squadron commander in November 1747 incited the worst Boston riot until violence broke out against the Stamp Act of 1765. Commodore...
Colonists in Boston revolted against a hated English governor 86 years and one day before the the world heard the shot in...