At 11 p.m. on this day in 1778, Commander John Paul Jones leads a small detachment of two boats from his ship, the USS Ranger, to raid the shallow port at Whitehaven, England, where, by […]
On This Day, April 21st, 1918 Red Baron killed in action In the well-trafficked skies above the Somme River in France, Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the notorious German flying ace known as the Red Baron,” […]
On This Day, April 20, 1777 New York State constitution adopted The first New York state constitution is formally adopted by the Convention of Representatives of the State of New York, meeting in the upstate […]
On This Day, April 19th, 1775 The American Revolution begins At about 5 a.m., 700 British troops, on a mission to capture Patriot leaders and seize a Patriot arsenal, march into Lexington to find 77 […]
April 18th, 1775 Revere and Dawes warn of British attack On this day in 1775, British troops march out of Boston on a mission to confiscate the American arsenal at Concord and to capture Patriot […]
On This Day – April 14th, Lincoln Assassinated: On this day in 1865, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shoots President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. […]
On This Day – April 13th In the early morning hours of April 13, 1777, General Lord Charles Cornwallis leads 4,000 British troops and Hessian mercenaries in a surprise attack on a small garrison of […]
On this fateful day on April 12th, in 1770, the British government moves to mollify outraged colonists by repealing most of the clauses of the hated Townshend Act. Initially passed on June 29, 1767, the […]
On this day in 1814, emperor of France and one of the greatest military leaders in history, Napoleon abdicates the throne, and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba. […]
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