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.

Loyalists’ fate after the American Revolution The Treaty of Paris recognized the U.S. as a sovereign nation and addressed a variety of other issues that remained to be resolved in the war’s ...

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.

He never did. On Sept. 1, 1780, Tye’s brigade raided the Colts Neck home of Capt. Joshua Huddy, who was every bit as feared by loyalists as Tye was by patriots.

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.

My wife and I visited recently to see the house where the American Revolution could have ended before it really started. ... they no doubt noted dozens of redcoats, Hessians and Loyalist militia.