American Revolution

At the time, Thomas Jefferson’s slave passage created a lot of contention and was eventually dropped from the Declaration of Independence.

He was 78 when British troops shot him in the face, bayonetted him six times, and clubbed him. They thought he was dead. They were wrong.

Today is the anniversary of the Boston Massacre one of the major events that led to the American Revolution a few years later.

Bearskins have become synonymous with the Royal Guard, but they’re North American in origin, as are the bear hides from which they’re made.

America is quickly approaching another 4th of July. As I write, we are still experiencing state government COVID-19 restrictions; state and church leaders in agreement to keep religious institutions closed; governors issuing executive orders and bypassing the legislative branch, and small business owners treated worse than criminals. Is this the spirit of the July 4th […]

Sailors aspiring to become Navy SEALs take a knee after the finish of Hell Week. A five-day suckfest, Hell Week is considered the most difficult part (with Pool competence a close second) of the Basic Demolition Underwater/SEAL (BUD/S) training.

What a better way to relax after a weekend of eating, drinking, and fireworks than by watching some great war films? I’ve compiled a list of the favorite films in our household. They’re listed in no particular order, and this list could easily have been tripled. I had no idea I had so many war […]

The American general was desperate. The last time he had faced his enemy counterpart, who considered one the best tacticians in the world, he and his men had barely escaped with their lives and had given up crucial territory during the withdrawal. He knew that he could be engaging in a second battle at any […]

In April of 1775, the opening shots of the American Revolutionary War were fired at the village green of Lexington. Although the Declaration of Independence was still 15 months away, open conflict had started and it lit a powderkeg that would engulf all of the 13 colonies.  As a result of the incidents in the […]

Two hundred and forty-six years ago, the British Empire was reeling mad at the people of Massachusetts. And fed up with the hotheads from the Colonies, they were going to show all of them that the Crown had parliamentary authority over them and would reverse the trend of resistance coming from America.   In March of […]

On a cold December evening in December 1773, American colonists, members of the Sons of Liberty protested the British Tea Act by disguising themselves as American Indians and threw an entire shipment of tea from England into Boston Harbor. This political protest and the subsequent reactions of the English government, set in motion a series of […]

At this point, most of us know that the story of Thanksgiving that we’re taught in grade school isn’t exactly accurate.  Pilgrims and Native Americans probably didn’t share a turkey across a picnic table and because European supplies were all but exhausted by the time the festival began (a festival in which few Pilgrims would […]