Revolutionary battles where General Washington secured his legacy as "First in War." Congress created the Continental Army on June 14, 1775, and John Adams nominated George Washington to serve as the ...

I. The anvil of necessity. Dark dawn of adventure -- A desperate search for advisers -- Traveler's dust -- A Virginian among New Englanders -- The war of positions -- The spreading blaze -- Foreign ...

George Washington has long been highly regarded as the father of his country. It's hard to imagine that the 13 original colonies that became the United States would have won their independence from ...

Two secret battlefield letters written by George Washington during one of the toughest winters of the Revolutionary War have recently surfaced and are now up for sale — just in time for America’s ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! On the 250th anniversary of George Washington's leaving Mount Vernon to attend the Second Continental Congress, George Washington's Mount Vernon ...

YORKTOWN, Va. — Just in time for Independence Day and the countdown to America’s 250th anniversary, a newly acquired portrait of George Washington is now on permanent display at the American ...

Documentary maker Ken Burns doesn’t think today’s polarized politics are anything new, especially for a country that, as he sees it, already had two civil wars — the American Revolution of 1776 and ...

Col. William Washington (1752-1810) was one of the Continental Army’s most-capable cavalry commanders and a key figure in the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution. A second cousin of George ...

“I think he was alert to the ways that it could end up eroding the institution,” says historian Christopher Brown George Washington has long been highly regarded as the father of his country. It's ...