Between the tents, men and women in Colonial garb scurried in various directions. An older man sang a song. The re-enactors from the nonprofit Ye Olde Towne Lebanon Militia were starting their day.

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Mechanical Arts & Numismatics Senior Curator Erik Goldstein provided a brief history of research into the weapons used in the fight for American independence. This ...

Re-enactors like Mantle accouter themselves in authentic (or as authentic as possible) colonial ... in Revolutionary War re-enacting events, according to the Brigade. Mantle’s Huntington Militia ...

The Revolutionary War was America’s first true military ... On April 18, 1775, Paul Revere began a midnight ride to warn local colonial militia members that the British army was on the move ...

On April 19, 1775, Paul Revere and William Dawes rode from Boston to Lexington to alert the Minute Man — the colonial militia — that ... But the war would be long — John Adams had ...

The National Guard is the oldest armed service in the United States and traces back to legislation approved on Dec. 13, 1636.

Early analysis of the balls - gray with sizes ranging from a pea to a marble - indicates colonial militia members ... believe they've uncovered Revolutionary War barracks "As soon as they pulled ...

He was a surveyor who became the highest-ranking military officer on the northwestern front during the Revolutionary War. During an apprenticeship with a surveyor, Clark traveled to Kentucky ...