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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Feb. 22, 1732 George Washington is born in a modest house ... most hardscrabble farmers and small-time merchants, holding the British army at bay in Boston. Washington was determined to impose ...

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 ...

A letter written by George ... When the British tried to withdraw, they faced a two-hour battle before the British were able to advance. The British claimed victory, but Washington — in his ...

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 ...

Join us Feb. 15-17 to explore the life, leadership, and legacy of the nation’s first president, George ... British army — and presentations featuring linen field tent that served as Washington ...