Banta, who eventually amassed a 395-acre farm in Hillside, was a captain in the Bergen Militia. Tangentially, he was part of ...

Fife, drum and bugle corps that kept step with colonial troops provided more than just music. They were the messengers and ...

Presidents Day is a federal holiday usually observed on the third Monday in February. It began with celebrating George ...

On April 19, 1775, Paul Revere and William Dawes rode from Boston to Lexington to alert the Minute Man — the colonial militia — that the British were on their way to Concord to destroy ...

The event features live musket volleys and opportunities to interact with reenactors wielding pikes, swords and muskets, celebrating Plymouth’s first colonial militia established in 1620-21.

Slave resistance escalated along with colonial struggles for liberty ... prompting the Georgia assembly to send a detachment of militia after them. During the Revolutionary War, service with ...

Tantalizing glimpses into life and death in pre-colonial Australia are written ... most likely dealt by the British militia. It turns out that the time of death was earlier—much, much earlier.