On March 17, 1776, the Continental Army under Gen. George Washington forced British troops to evacuate Boston.

On April 26, 1777, during the Revolutionary War, a large British raiding party attacked the American supply depot at Danbury, Connecticut, burning houses and barns and destroying stores of shoes, ...

Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain George Washington is known as one of the heroes of the American Revolution, but he actually started his military career as a member of the British army in the ...

9, 1777, for Gen. George Washington’s Headquarters as his Continental Army plotted to attack the British army, writes Troy Grubb in Pennsylvania Heritage. The town, then known as Chads Ford ...

George Washington was born on ... The Purple Heart wasn’t revived until Feb. 22, 1932, on Washington’s 200th birthday. Designed by Elizabeth Will, an Army heraldic specialist, the modern ...

After successfully driving the British out of Boston, General George Washington had marched his army to New York, hoping to prevent the British from capturing the city. In the invasion ...

The British actively recruited slaves ... 5,000 black men served in the Continental Army, and hundreds more served on the sea. Had George Washington been less ambivalent, more blacks might have ...

A May 1777 letter from George Washington, written in Morristown ... came at a critical juncture for the Continental Army. Following a British attack on the town of Danbury, Connecticut, Washington ...

In an effort to quell the growing unrest towards Congress, General George Washington made a surprise visit to officers at Newburgh, New York, on March 15, 1783, during an assembly of army officers.

In the optimistic missive, Washington ... 1,500 British soldiers and loyalists landed on the Connecticut shore and marched 25 miles inland. Their goal was to destroy a Continental Army supply ...