The battles, which emerged from a gathering revolutionary crisis, predicted the outcome of the war: the victory of the ...

Mount Vernon is marking a major anniversary with a reenactment and the ribbon cutting of a new feature on Sunday in Virginia.

Wetmore, to whom the society seems at various periods to have been under great obligations, Mr. John Austin Stevens read a paper on "The Delegates of New-York in the Second Continental Congress ...

Editor: May 10, 1775, the Second Continental Congress met at Independence Hall and on July 4, 1776, The Declaration of Independence was adopted unanimously. The signers mutually pledged to each ...

During the American Revolution, the Continental Congress was the national government ... And during the Great Depression, and then the Second World War, Franklin D. Roosevelt ran a command ...

In 1775, following the start of the Revolutionary War, the Second Continental Congress established the Continental Army on June 14, the Continental Navy on Oct. 13 and the Continental Marines on ...

That was the day the Second Continental Congress voted for independence. For more information about the Red, White and Blue To-Do, visit this page at PHLVisitorCenter.com. Organizers also ...

In May, he returned to Independence Hall in Philadelphia to participate in the Second Continental Congress. There, on June 10, he proposed the idea of creating a Continental Army, which the ...

The following April, in 1775, many delegates learned of the Battles of Lexington and Concord while en route to Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress, where war was declared, and where ...