Delivered 250 years ago, the famous oration marked the height of Henry's influence. But the politician also served in key ...

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 ...

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 ...

George Washington was the first president of the ... Well, that likely varied a bit when he was commanding his army from 1775 to 1783. And, as it turns out, we know a bit more about the breakdown ...

Washington.” Indeed, by May 1777, George Washington had reason to be optimistic. When the Revolutionary War broke out in 1775 ...

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, 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 ...

"First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.” That famous description of George Washington by his friend and fellow patriot Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee is ...

On 14 June 1775, Congress passed an act creating a ... The next day, the representatives appointed George Washington as Commander in Chief and directed all Patriot efforts to support the ...