Captain Peirce was already a well-tested veteran of the Middleborough militia when the American Revolution began, having served with distinction in Massachusetts General John Winslow’s 1755 ...

In his article “Decoding Connecticut Militia 1739-1783,” Robertson finds that in May of 1774, the Connecticut state legislature created the 17 th and 18 th Regiments.

In 1782, Loyalist Benjamin Thompson commented on two troops of Tory South Carolina militia cavalry (which he called “Hussars”) commanded by Cunningham and Young.

Short on manpower, and relying on a loose combination of regular army troops and local militia, Nathanael Greene wrested the South from the British and saved the Revolution.

Loyalists and the American Revolution. For Christians, there has always been a nagging question about whether the American Revolution was morally legitimate, given biblical admonitions to support ...

Many crucial moments of the American Revolution, and the stuff of local lore, played out across geographic Long Island — present-day Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk.