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With Saturday’s anniversary, the United States is looking back to its war of independence and asking where its legacy stands ...
British General Charles Cornwallis ordered the burning of a Continental Army barracks in Colonial Williamsburg in 1781. What he hoped to destroy forever was recently found by archaeologists ...
The British believed Africans were essentially ... SOLDIER'S POINT OF VIEW "I got into the French army during the colonial period...and first I was a private, then I became a sergeant in the ...
The American Village in Montevallo hosted a re-enactment of the Battle at Concord Bridge on its 250th anniversary April 19.
At the height of political instability in Kenya in the 1950s, the colonial government ... writes how the British government in East Africa tried various methods to ensure soldiers' sexual needs ...
National Park Service Five musket balls fired by colonial militiamen during one ... where American militiamen and British soldiers exchanged fire on April 19, 1775, according to a statement ...
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 ...
Barkawi divides his subject into three parts: “Colonial Soldiers” deals with the training and military ... and makes a case that even pre-war British officers, supposedly trained in the language and ...