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Henry I. Kurtz shows how the result of this battle depressed the British victors, but they held on to Boston for another nine months.

M. Foster Farley describes the battle of the Cowpens, of January 17th, 1781, whereby an experienced old soldier, Daniel Morgan, routed the force led by Banastre Tarleton, a ‘ruthless and ambitious’ young adventurer.

The founding of the great city by the Dutch, and other New York firsts.

The great Confederate commander was fatally wounded at Chancellorsville on May 2nd, 1863.

President Obama has more in common with Dwight D. Eisenhower than any other of his predecessors, says Michael Burleigh.

Of the many immigrants from the United Kingdom who took up arms in the war, only a small number were English. 

The notorious prison was closed for good on 21 March 1963.

In 1952, the Society of Friends celebrated its tercentenary. One of the Quakers' greatest achievements was the founding of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1681. By Henry J. Cadbury.

The Russians were among the first Europeans to sense California's potential. Had they not sold their settlement there in 1841, the world could have been a different place.

Only a staff composed of men of military genius, and backed by a decisive and imaginative government at Westminster, could have secured a victory in the American War of Independence. Eric Robson reflects on how men of considerable talent, and of much good-will, failed in an impossible task.