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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 ...
Britain's defense ministry says a member of the armed forces has been arrested in Kenya and U.K. military police are ...
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 ...
Dispute between a naval lieutenant and a future Revolutionary War hero may have sparked the historic burning of a British ...
"These invaluable pieces were taken from Uganda during the 1890s and early 1900s by British colonial administrators, anthropologists, missionaries and soldiers," he said. The pieces had been kept ...
“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the ...
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 ...
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 ...
No soldier or nurse is forgotten ... the racist prejudices of the War Office and British Empire's Colonial Office led to the neglect of certain bodies. At the end of 2019, a special committee ...
When Britain occupied Bushehr and sent Mirza Ali Muhammad Khan to India in 1915, he was told it would be temporary. But ...
Barracks believed built by the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War between 1776 and 1777 were recently discovered in Colonial Williamsburg. Experts believe the barracks were burned by ...