July 1: Cherokee attack the southern frontier. July 4: Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence. It’s worth noting that two other branches of the military will turn 250 this year as well. The ...

It’s interesting to speculate what the United States would look like today if the smaller colonies in North America had survived ... might have become Russian, French, or Spanish, but certainly ...

In 1776, the French foreign minister covertly funded ... Ferling explores how the struggle between England and its North American colonies erupted into a global conflict. If not for the financial ...

In this conflict, the French army was halted by the floods caused by ... The Nieuw-Nederland, as they were called in their language, formed the colonial province in North America of the Republic of ...