By the outbreak of the American Revolution, the militia had thrown in its lot with the Continental Congress and would go on to fight in several Revolutionary War battles. Re-enactors like Mantle ...

A Hillsdale home built by a pre-Revolution British militia captain with Tory ties has ... according to Adrian Coulter Leiby's ...

During the Revolutionary War, service with the British provided military training to thousands ... From this base in the swamps, "Captain Cudjoe" and "Captain Lewis" led an armed group of 100 ...

and that whites could get exemption from military service by substituting a slave. In his memoirs, U.S. Navy Commodore James Barron, who served as a captain in the Virginia navy during the war ...

A sea captain and namesake of Conyngham Borough so harassed merchant ships that the English hesitated to sail around their island during the Revolutionary War.

An older man sang a song. The re-enactors from the nonprofit Ye Olde Towne Lebanon Militia were starting their day. "It's a way for us to bring history to life," said Carrie Ward of Tolland, Conn. "It ...