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In his own time, George Washington was famous. The American Revolution would catapult the general into the stratosphere of the household names known...

On September 5, 1774, delegates from twelve of the thirteen British colonies of North America met in Carpenters’ Hall located in Philadelphia...

On November 23, 1765, Francis Bernard, the royal governor of Massachusetts posed this question in a letter in which the answer would result in blows...

The fall and early winter of 1776 was the low point of the war for the American cause. Beginning that summer, the British had struck with a vengeance...

New York City, the second largest population hub in the American colonies, had known nothing but British occupation for seven years during the War for...

The American Revolution produced many future leaders in the political sphere for the newly created United States of America. A few became president of...

On June 29, 1767, the British Parliament passed an act that began as follows: “AN ACT for granting certain duties in the British colonies and...

In the centuries after the introduction of gunpowder a whole new vocabulary of military engineering evolved, with works like redoubts, redans...

“These are the times that try men’s souls...” is one of the most recognizable lines of literature from the American Revolutionary War era. Penned by...

The Battle of Stony Point was one of the more dramatic battles in the Revolutionary War. Much of the combat was brutal hand to hand fighting at the...

Perhaps none of the punitive acts passed by the British parliament to quell the rebellious activities occurring in the colonies during the buildup to...

Over the span of two major conflicts, no set of siblings played more of a role in American history than Great Britain’s Howe brothers. Through their...