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 ...

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

Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War.