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 ...

Library of Congress Although there was no way George Washington could have known it at the time, when Philadelphia’s Continental Congress appointed him military commander in June 1775 ...

George Washington, who had been leading the ... Since the start of the war in 1775, Washington’s Continental Army had suffered repeated setbacks. But in the winter of 1776-1777 it had delivered ...