Tickets are available to hear Atkinson talk about his newest book Monday. He'll appear downtown at the First Presbyterian ...

From a battlefield in Guilford County to lyrics in the blockbuster Broadway hit "Hamilton," Greensboro's namesake is ...

Dispute between a naval lieutenant and a future Revolutionary War hero may have sparked the historic burning of a British warship in Warwick in 1772.

The HMS Gaspee, a British customs schooner, seized cargo from a sloop owned by Nathanael Greene, future second-in-command of the Continental Army. The Gaspee's officers claimed the cargo was ...

Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene is familiar to readers of military history, but should be known to all Americans. ... he was second only to Washington as the Continental Army’s indispensable man.

From September 18th to the 26th, 1777, General George Washington and the Continental Army inhabited farms and other buildings in the area that is now known as New Hanover Township.

The documents were passed to the commander of the Continental Army in the southern theater, Nathanael Greene, by another courier. After the British soldiers' encounter with the Martin sisters, the ...

- The army needed a lot of timber to construct the huts, like the ones that you see behind me. As well as fuel. You have 10,000 men that need to light their fireplaces every day throughout the winter.

10. Nathanael Greene. ... Washington appointed Greene as the commanding officer of all Continental Army forces in the South, which included Virginia, Georgia, and South Carolina.

If Nathanael Greene was an unlikely soldier, he was an even more unlikely Quaker. Not only did he reject his family’s pacifism; he rejected as well its disapproving attitude toward the pleasures ...

The artillery and materiel housed within the fort would contribute greatly to the arsenal of the Continental Army. ... American Major General Nathanael Greene’s forces numbered roughly 4,500 men ...

It was placed under the command of General Nathanael Greene, a promising young officer known as the “ Fighting Quaker.” Photograph: artist John Trumbull, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons ...