Boston King and his wife Violet were among the black Loyalists who gathered in New York, waiting to be evacuated by the British after the end of the American Revolution. He later described his ...

Somehow, an epidemic within the army never materialised. On 17 March, 1776, after nearly a year in Boston, the frustrated British sailed off to Halifax – which was in the midst of a smallpox ...

click image for close-up In 1776 ... to be a British stronghold for the duration of the war, and large numbers of enslaved blacks sought refuge there. When the British evacuated Savannah in ...

In 1901, the parade moved to South Boston to commemorate the evacuation of British troops in 1776. The event has drawn huge crowds ever since, with nearly a million people celebrating last year ...

Why it matters: The parade, one of the city's oldest Irish traditions, celebrates both the Patron Saint of Ireland and the ...

A piece of Holocaust history — a Nazi concentration camp built on Alderney, a British island — has been largely forgotten.

In Libya, 28 March is British Evacuation Day, to mark the final departure of British forces in 1970. Later the same year, the Americans packed up their own airbase too - hoping to stay on good ...

A wounded British doctor and his elderly mother have finally managed to escape Sudan on a British evacuation flight – but countless NHS doctors have been left behind. The doctor, who recently ...

All British residents should qualify for evacuation from Sudan, Labour has said. Downing Street has so far rejected calls to widen the eligibility for evacuation beyond British passport holders ...