For enslaved Black Americans living through the Revolutionary War, freedom sometimes meant donning the red coat of the enemy.

The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the ...

For black people, what mattered most was freedom. As the Revolutionary War spread through every region, those in bondage sided with whichever army promised them personal liberty. The British ...

Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount ...

There are over two million black people just like me living in ... So Mary wanted to help the British soldiers in the war. She had heard that they were not well cared for. So she travelled to ...

In September 1768, a Boston newspaper reported an incident in which British troops were "severely whipped" by a mostly black group in a fight on the Common. A fight between soldiers and ropemakers ...

The sole British soldier charged with murder over the 1972 'Bloody Sunday' killings of 13 unarmed Catholic civil rights ...

In 1917 he was made an officer and became the first black officer to lead white British soldiers into battle. In 1918 the German army was making a last effort to win the war. On 25 March ...