It was on April 19, 1775 — 250 years ago — that the British Redcoats marched to Lexington, where they skirmished with Minutemen on the Village Green after they failed to find John Hancock ...

CBS News Throughout their grueling 18-mile retreat, the redcoats took fire from a growing number of colonial militiamen fighting from behind rocks and trees. This was terrain the patriots knew well.

The British soldiers who encountered American militiamen at Lexington and Concord may have been surprised by the colonists' fierce opposition. Yet the Redcoats knew of some colonists' increasing ...

March 5: After 18 months of a British Army presence in Boston, Americans taunt the Redcoats into making a deadly mistake, shooting into a crowd and killing five men. The event, known as the Boston ...

Ahead of the Patriots game against the Jacksonville Jaguars in London, Angel Salcedo quizzed running back Antonio Gibson on British phrases.

With Patriots’ Day just a few weeks away, the Minuteman is taking a closer look at the participants in the Battle of Lexington. ‘Meet the Redcoats’ will introduce you to a few members of the ...

They are celebrated as the original American patriots—the reluctant citizen-soldiers who won the Revolutionary War. When some 700 British regulars were ordered into the Massachusetts countryside ...

A spectacular tower of British-inspired treats with a New England twist is the highlight of the teahouse, a grand way to cheer on the Patriots in London from right here at home.

There is one NFL team that stands above them all on Fourth of July: the New England Patriots. But was the franchise really named as a tribute to America? How, exactly, did the nickname come about ...

This is the actual time the battle took place. Meet the Redcoats at Munroe Tavern: April 21, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Learn more about the British soldiers of the American Revolution at this event.

Paul Revere Wasn’t the Only Midnight Rider Who Dashed Through the Darkness to Warn the Patriots That the British Were Coming Revere, who was later immortalized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s ...