Timothy Riordan, Ph.D., historian and vice president of the Charlestown Historical Society in Massachusetts, said the average age of the men fighting the British Army was 27 years old. With Riordan's ...

At the Battle of Bunker Hill in Charlestown 250 years ago, hundreds of people joined the fight against the British, an early battle in the American Revolution. One of them was David How, then only 18 ...

Matt Woodfin, a 32-year-old Charlestown resident, slowly pulled a thin blade of fine steel from its two-century-old ornamental scabbard, tracing the carefully engraved name of his seventh great-uncle ...

To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, a group with personal ties to the historic event converged on Boston’s Charlestown neighborhood Tuesday. Descendants of those who ...

One of the turning points during the Revolutionary War was the Battle of Bunker Hill 250 years ago. While it was a British victory, the confidence and morale of the colonial militia were greatly ...