Search results
Apr 12, 2024 · Battle of Bunker Hill. The Battle of Bunker Hill and the patriots' retreat took place on a small peninsula north of Boston. The Americans set up their defenses on Breed's Hill. The site is built over today, but it was open country in 1775. The British advanced from Boston by boat. The Charles River was not largely filled in then as it is today ...
- Facts & Related Content
The Battle of Bunker Hill, which took place on June 17,...
- Battle of Kings Mountain
Battle of Kings Mountain, battle in the American Revolution,...
- Siege of Fort Ticonderoga
Key People: John Burgoyne ... Siege of Boston. c. April 19,...
- Battle of Cowpens
Battle of Cowpens, battle in the American Revolution fought...
- Battle of Camden
A summary of the Battle of Camden on August 16, 1780. When...
- Battle of White Plains
Battle of White Plains, (Oct. 28, 1776), in the U.S. War of...
- Facts & Related Content
Apr 10, 2024 · Great Molasses Flood, disaster in Boston that occurred after a storage tank collapsed on January 15, 1919, sending more than two million gallons (eight million litres) of molasses flowing through the city’s North End. The deluge caused extensive damage and killed 21 people.
3 days ago · The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused. Thirty people were found guilty, nineteen of whom were executed by hanging (fourteen women and five men). One other man, Giles Corey, died under ...
Apr 14, 2024 · Published: Apr. 14, 2024, 4:50 p.m. Boston Police Sgt. Dennis "DJ" Simmonds died a decade ago, a year after he was injured in a firefight with the Boston Marathon bombers. Boston Police Department ...
3 days ago · In total 909 individuals died in Jonestown itself, [1] all but two from apparent cyanide poisoning, a significant number of whom were injected against their will, in an event termed "revolutionary suicide" by Jones and some Peoples Temple members on an audio tape of the event, and in prior recorded discussions.
- >930
- Barima-Waini
Apr 6, 2024 · Eighteen people died in the shootings, and more than a dozen others were injured. Card fled, and a manhunt involving more than 300 law enforcement officials immediately ensued for two days, until his body was recovered Oct. 27.
2 days ago · Apr. 29, 2024, 6:52 AM ET (USA Today) US has long history of college protests: Here's what happened in the past. Kent State shooting, the shooting of unarmed college students at Kent State University, in northeastern Ohio, by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970, one of the seminal events of the anti- Vietnam War movement in the United States.
