Dispute between a naval lieutenant and a future Revolutionary War hero may have sparked the historic burning of a British ...

and the British Army wasn’t offering enough money to offset the cost of the lost labor on colonial plantations. Though the government tried to recruit free Black people living in the British ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Britain occupied Bushehr and sent Mirza Ali Muhammad Khan to India in 1915, he was told it would be temporary. But ...