The Army unit responsible for operating some of the most significant training ranges in Europe got a new commanding general ...

Here are some things you may not know about the U.S. Army, which will be honored Saturday in Washington, D.C. with a military ...

Sunday marks 250 years since George Washington left Mount Vernon to travel to Philadelphia where he was appointed commander-in-chief of the new Continental Army. It marks the Second Continental ...

Shortly after taking command of the Continental Army in July 1775, General George Washington ordered an accounting of the patriots’ gunpowder stores. When he learned the total available was a ...

An elm tree said to have shaded George Washington as he took command of the Continental Army in Cambridge, Mass., in 1775 has a new descendent in Loveland. On Monday, members of the Namaqua ...

The Continental Army would have seven birthdays after its foundational June 14, 1775, congressional resolution. Washington had ideas to develop the new U.S. Army further, but they were ignored by ...

The people who created the U.S. Army did not want it to last forever. George Washington, the first commander of the Continental Army, wrote that "a large standing Army in time of Peace hath ever ...

The Continental Army was originally composed of soldiers from Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia. 4. One day after the branch was established, George Washington was appointed commander-in-chief ...