While establishment historians claim that the British government had no intentions of depriving American colonists of their liberties, actual history tells a ...

Inside the steeple of Old North Church and among the Southern Colonies, less familiar stories of the events from 250 years ...

Last month, the Richmond museum opened its exhibition, “Give Me Liberty: Virginia & the Forging of a Nation,” with an array ...

A just-discovered eyewitness account provides startling new evidence about who fired the shot that sparked the French and Indian War Secrets of American History David Preston; Photographs by ...

The second installment of the Pulitzer Prize winner’s trilogy about the war animates an entire world — from battlefields and ...

"NOVA" features a skilled marksman firing the British Army's smoothbore musket at ... patriots had some wonder weapons of their own. George Washington fired the first cannon at Yorktown.

The ceremony also included a military performance by groups such as the U.S. Army Golden Knights Parachute ... and personal escort to Gen. George Washington.

George Washington is an American icon for many important reasons. As the Continental Army’s commander-in-chief and the ...

George Washington would call Francisco his “one-man army.” “He managed to survive ... single-handedly dispatched a group of feared British dragoons. “He was immensely brave.

George Washington was so impressed by his heroism ... who moved his army to Yorktown to take the British army and win the war. “In the Battle of Yorktown, the last major battle in the war ...

But even though I have a hard time envisioning these historic events occurring in my hometown as it is today, sometimes when I wake up early on a mid-April day, smell dew on the green grass of the ...

The Americans suffered 49 killed and 39 wounded, the British 73 killed and 174 wounded ... Samuel Whittemore lived until he was 96, dying on February 2, 1793, shortly before George Washington was ...