Here's What It Meant in 1775 The phrase “Give me liberty or ... He was demanding a specific kind of freedom from the British Empire. Tensions were coming to a boil, particularly in Massachusetts ...

He was 43 years old when he rode out of his Mount Vernon estate in May 1775. He was 51 ... had not only smashed two British armies and destroyed the first British Empire, it had also set in ...

Anniversaries come and go. But the 250 th marking of Lexington/Concord is a key milestone in world history. On the first ...

The British Empire began in the late 1500s under Queen Elizabeth I. By 1913 the empire had grown to rule over 400 million people, making it the largest empire in history. British government and ...