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These Black Soldiers Fought for the British During the American Revolution in Exchange for Freedom From Slavery
For enslaved Black Americans living through the Revolutionary War, freedom sometimes meant donning the red coat of the enemy.
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5 Weird Revolutionary War Facts You Either Forgot or Never Learned
If you were asked to name the first time a submarine was used in war, you probably wouldn’t be thinking back to redcoats and minutemen, but it did indeed happen during the Revolutionary War.
As the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War approaches, Lexington and Concord remain in dispute
A dispute that’s been going on for centuries has heated up again as the neighboring towns plan competing celebrations to mark ...
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'Say you want a revolution?': 250 years ago, 'The shot heard around the world' rang out
And so it began: 250 years ago the battles of Lexington and Concord propelled the British colonies in America into a revolutionary ... approximately 240 redcoats, also known as regulars, the ...
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As the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War approaches, Lexington and Concord remain in dispute
LEXINGTON — On April 19, 1775, the Revolutionary War began ... As the sun was rising on April 19, the Redcoats arrived in Lexington, the last town before Concord, where they were met on the ...