On March 5, 1770, as a lone British soldier stood guarding King George III’s money stored at the Custom House, a group of colonists gathered and began hurling insults and threats of violence.

like soldiers did 250 years before. The stone home Spackman lives in dates to 1709, with additions in 1770 and 1830. It served as a field hospital. Why such passion? “Having grown up in the soil ...

By 1770, he was one of the busiest and best attorneys ... the lone guard was reinforced by eight British soldiers with loaded ...

Low wages had led many soldiers to secure part-time jobs in their off-duty hours. They further antagonized many Bostonians by dating local women. On February 22, 1770, an 11-year-old boy ...

A fight between soldiers and ropemakers on Friday, March 2, 1770 ignited a series of confrontations that led to the Boston Massacre the following Monday. Crispus Attucks, a mulatto sailor ...

What would soon be known as the Boston Massacre started with a minor dispute: On the evening of March 5, 1770, a wigmaker’s young apprentice accused a British officer of not paying for his new ...

In a career that stretches across a catastrophic half-century of health crises and wars, Avery applies his activist and ...

Soon after arriving in Brazil, the pregnant Aqualtune escaped with some of her soldiers and fled to the ... a town founded in 1770 by Portuguese colonists from Morocco who had been ordered by ...

The soldiers dropped off at every station ... "Here Marie Antoinette, May 17, 1770, came on her way to Paris to marry Louis XVI and knelt at this altar.'' The shrine of Austrian royalty!

But how often do you see someone actually live up to them? Soldiers learn these values in detail during Basic Combat Training (BCT), from then on they live them every day in everything they do ...

Warning: This story contains a graphic image. A World War One memorial to soldiers whose story has been described as an unresolved "taboo" is set to be unveiled. Historian Ellie Grigsby has ...

There are six UN-verified “grave violations” of children’s rights in conflict. Being recruited and used as a child soldier is one of them. [i] Save the Children’s Stop the War on Children report, the ...