The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, 1775, during the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. It occurred on ... In the morning of September 16, 1776, British General William ...

The American Revolutionary War pitted colonial rebels against the ... The British introduced their own version of the Whig snipers rifle — the 1776 pattern rifle. The design of the rifle was ...

The experience of the American revolutionary generation ... from slavery during the war. Many saw the violence of war firsthand. Gabriel, born into slavery in 1776, probably remembered the British ...

Then the tide of war turned again, when the British suffered a staggering defeat in October, 1777, at Saratoga, 30 miles north of Albany, at the hands of the American “Northern Army” and its commander ...