Unlike the Continental Army, the Navy ... Revolutionary War -- partly out of desperation for seamen of any color, and partly because many blacks were already experienced sailors, having served in ...

Some British naval ships carried nuclear weapons during the Falklands War, it has emerged. The Ministry of Defence confirmed that it did have some nuclear depth chargers, used for destroying ...

The day ended in a British ... a strong naval front -- British General Cornwallis surrendered his huge force of 8,000 men. Great Britain was weary of an expensive, seemingly endless war, and ...

If the Germans could use their brand-spanking new navy to stop that, sinking ships and cutting off supply lines, they could starve Britain out of the war. So, the British Navy had one clear goal ...

During the Revolutionary War, he commanded ships off the ... enough to see the day” when an American navy could fight the British “ship to ship,” and that “we should procure him then ...

The Royal Navy and RAF have been shadowing Russian warships as they sail through British waters for the third time in six weeks. Four Russian ships on their way back from Syria were closely watched by ...