In May 1777, during the Revolutionary War, a brigadier general anxiously wrote George Washington a letter about a British ...

George Washington Parke Custis ... first at Valley Forge and then at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, which opened in 2017. Asked if he knew of a more storied item of ...

Thus George Washington, at age 16 ... in Chief of the new Continental Army in what was fast becoming the American Revolution. Thereafter he was on the move, fighting and retreating hither and ...

George Washington was the first president of the ... ensure the survival of the Continental Army during the American Revolution, he also laid down a number of massively important precedents ...

If George Washington’s audacity on January 3, 1777, had not reversed the patriots’ retreat and routed the advancing British, the American Revolution might have been extinguished. Yet such is ...

A letter written by George Washington in 1777 that is valued at $150,000 is up for sale this Presidents Day. The letter, ...

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

As the Revolutionary War spread through every ... and hundreds more served on the sea. Had George Washington been less ambivalent, more blacks might have participated on the Patriot side than ...

Feb. 22, 1732 George Washington is born in a modest house ... In late December 1776, with the revolution on the verge of collapse, enlistments about to expire, and “summer soldiers” waiting ...

During the Revolutionary War, conditions were dismal for American ... Challenges Upon his inauguration as the first president on April 30, 1789, George Washington assumed office under the tenuous ...

This week marks two hundred years since a 1825 tour of the United States by the Marquis de Lafayette. The French general served under George Washington during the Revolutionary War. LaFayette later ...

Driven by the desire to secure the fate of the colonies, the greatest hero of the revolution, George Washington, succumbs to the temptation of infinite power. The new King is born and his reign ...