List of maps -- Cast of characters -- Introduction: Spirit of 1783 -- Part I: Refugees. Civil war ; An unsettling peace ; A new world disorder -- Part II: Settlers. The heart of empire ; A world in ...

At the end of the Revolutionary War, those who remained loyal to the British Crown departed America either to return to Britain or to settle in other colonial territories. Many relocated to Canada, ...

When the American Revolution ended in 1783, not everyone was celebrating independence. Thousands of colonists who had ...

As the war enters its sixth year, the Continental Army is starting to show signs of fraying. After British victories in the Siege of Charleston and the Battle of Waxhaws, British soldiers under ...

This year will mark two 250th anniversaries. The first is the signing of the American Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, an independence officially and begrudgingly recognized by the British ...