In the mid-afternoon of April 19, 1775, a group of men from the American colonies prepared to ambush retreating British soldiers near Hartwell Tavern in Lincoln, Massachusetts.

With Saturday’s anniversary, the United States is looking back to its war of independence and asking where its legacy stands ...

British Army officers and colonial administrators mingled with Shiite Arabs from Basra near the Persian Gulf, Kurds from Mosul near Turkey, and Sunni Arabs from Baghdad to witness the installation ...

The American Village in Montevallo hosted a re-enactment of the Battle at Concord Bridge on its 250th anniversary April 19. The Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts, is a significant site where ...

In the surprise attack, an advance column led by Hessian Jaeger scouts fighting for the British were pinned down by Colonial soldiers who put up a spirited resistance at the Old Stone Arch Bridge ...

Just after dawn on the Lexington Battle Green, militiamen, muskets in hand, took on a much larger contingent of British regulars ... a lieutenant colonel with the Army Reserve whose ancestor ...

(John Walker/The Metro West Daily News via AP,File) FILE - Colonial soldiers fire on the British during the Patriots' Day reenactment of the battles of Lexington and Concord, in Lexington ...

British Regulars fire on New England colonial militia, also known as a Minutemen, during a reenactment celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and start of the American ...