The 13 colonies can be divided into three distinct regions: The New England colonies included Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Hampshire. Life here revolved around community ...

Massachusetts, banded together to force the British to withdraw from their town during an oft-overlooked encounter known as Leslie's Retreat Robert Pushkar The Englishman’s pamphlet helped spur ...

As tensions grew between American colonists and the British crown, the strategic importance of the largest, wealthiest colony ...