USA

Esmond Wright remembers the dramatic role in the American Revolution played by Paul Revere, an engraver and silversmith from Boston.

Allen Cabaniss revisists a war between the French and American Indians.

Stuart D. Goulding introduces the founder of the colony, Roger Williams, who returned to England in 1643 and 1651 and had many friends among the English Parliamentarians.

Louis C. Kleber profiles the tenth President of the United States, 1841-5, who survived a charge of impeachment and acquired Texas.

During troubled times over Hawaii, Oregon and the West Indies, Melville maintained a sympathetic attitude to Britain - not least to the Chartists, writes Charlotte Lindgren.

Henry I. Kurtz shows how the result of this battle depressed the British victors, but they held on to Boston for another nine months.

M. Foster Farley describes the battle of the Cowpens, of January 17th, 1781, whereby an experienced old soldier, Daniel Morgan, routed the force led by Banastre Tarleton, a ‘ruthless and ambitious’ young adventurer.

The founding of the great city by the Dutch, and other New York firsts.

The great Confederate commander was fatally wounded at Chancellorsville on May 2nd, 1863.

President Obama has more in common with Dwight D. Eisenhower than any other of his predecessors, says Michael Burleigh.