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, ...

March 17 is officially observed as Evacuation Day in Boston, even though St. Patrick’s Day falls on the same date. Here's the ...

The film recounts the early life of George Washington, highlighting his upbringing on a Virginia tobacco plantation. It ...

A letter written by George Washington in 1777 that is valued at $150,000 is up for sale this Presidents Day. The letter, acquired by the Raab Collection, was written during the Revolutionary War ...

Early in his speech, Trump compared himself to George Washington, the first person to hold the office ... Trump says it's ...

Raab Collection A rare letter from George Washington expressing his faith in ... who had been waging a brutal war for almost two years. In a letter to Washington, Brigadier General Samuel Holden ...

George Washington, who had been leading the battle ... raid was a relatively small expedition in the bloody, drawn-out war for independence that would go on for six more years.

On Jan. 24, 1776, Henry Knox, a bold, portly bookseller and former Bostonian, solved the first problem. Having seized Fort Ticonderoga, in upstate New York, he and his men dragged the garrison’s ...

South Carolina on Friday is scheduled to put the first person to death by firing squad in the U.S. in 15 years. Brad Sigmon, ...

The War Powers Resolution of 1973 ... the bestselling author of You Never Forget Your First, a biography of George Washington.

The war of independence had been won, but the states were still scrambling to decipher how they would interact with each other and with Congress. Before George Washington resigned from his post as ...