After the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, the Massachusetts militia organized into longer-serving ...

Trump is planning a giant military parade down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., to coincide with his 79th birthday on ...

Thus George Washington, at age 16 ... After some years building up Mount Vernon as a farm, in May 1775 he was off to Philadelphia as a delegate to the Continental Congress. He would be back ...

Thus the Continental Congress commissioned George Washington as commander in chief of the Continental Army, June 19, 1775. Washington, Appointed Commander in Chief. This lithograph, published by ...

It lists the basics of an enigmatic event that unfolded near the site 250 years ago: “In 1772, Washington patented 10,990 acres along the Great Kanawha River. In 1775, he had James Cleveland and ...

Had George Washington been less ambivalent, more blacks might have participated on the Patriot side than with the Loyalists. When he took command of the Continental Army in 1775, Washington barred ...

George Washington served as the first president of the United States from age 57 in 1789 to age 65 in 1797, but before that, he was known for his military leadership during the French and Indian ...