the Second Continental Congress established the Continental Army on June 14, 1775, appointing General George Washington as its commander. Men from all walks of life answered the call, united by ...

As a nascent fighting force, the Continental Army was underestimated for the entirety of the American Revolutionary War. Just ...

The Continental Army thus became America’s first national institution. The next step was to select a commander in chief. George Washington of Virginia was the favored choice because of his ...

George Washington was not that person. He didn't brag or boast. He realized that to hold his army together and maintain the support of the public and the Continental Congress, he had to maintain ...

is a plantation owner who dies when George is 11. June 15, 1775 Having served with distinction in the French and Indian War, Washington is appointed as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army ...

But even though I have a hard time envisioning these historic events occurring in my hometown as it is today, sometimes when ...

George Washington was the first president of the US. He's widely-regarded as the father of the country. Here's a look at the typical schedule he stuck to when he was at his Mount Vernon plantation.

A May 1777 letter from George Washington, written in Morristown ... Samuel Holden Parsons, came at a critical juncture for the Continental Army. Following a British attack on the town of Danbury ...

5,000 black men served in the Continental Army, and hundreds more served on the sea. Had George Washington been less ambivalent, more blacks might have participated on the Patriot side than with ...

After the Bristish occupying army left Boston, Washington issued ... even as delegates to the Continental Congress struggled to sustain the fiction that George III remained a friend to American ...

A descendant of John Ball, the medieval English preacher who led the first popular rebellion in England, George ... nominated Washington to be commander of the Continental Army.