click image for close-up This portrait of an unidentified Revolutionary War sailor was painted in oil ... having served in the British navy and in the colonies' state navies, as well as on ...

The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the ...

Unlike the Continental Army, the Navy recruited both free and enslaved blacks from the very start of the Revolutionary ... already experienced sailors, having served in British and state navies ...

and their Chilean allies paid homage to British sailors lost in one of the first great naval actions of World War 1. One hundred and ten years to the day that the Royal and German Navies clashed ...

The life story of William “Billy” Flora, a Black man and celebrated Revolutionary War hero, illustrates the ... he fired multiple shots at oncoming British forces from behind the scant cover ...