George Washington patented 10,900 acres along the Kanawha River in what is now Mason County, West Virginia. What started off ...

Shortly after taking command of the Continental Army in July 1775, General George Washington ordered an accounting of the ...

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 ...

By Henry HoweDirector, Fort Jackson Museum CommunityWhen the American Revolution began on April 19, 1775, the colonies relied on local militias to ...

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

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 ...

Ted Widmer, a consulting editor for this special issue of Globe Ideas, is the author of “Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days ...

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

"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 ...