Years later, he wrote that his life was in as “much jeopardy as it ever had been before or since.” Washington was pursuing a ...

Three decades before his election as the first president of the United States in 1789, George Washington commanded soldiers ...

The British army in North America had only one purpose: "to force us to submission." Because war was inevitable, ... 10 Writings of George Washington, at 90. Over a decade later, ...

Four years of digging for artifacts in the Ligonier area have shed new light on a little-known “friendly fire” incident in ...

According to the Fred W. Smith National Library for Study of George Washington, Washington and his Continental Army “faced a threat that proved deadlier than the British” in the first years of ...

In 1777, George Washington faced a losing war. Then he created America's first espionage operation. In 1777, ... The British Army had captured New York City’s crucial port.

According to the Fred W. Smith National Library for Study of George Washington, Washington and his Continental Army "faced a threat that proved deadlier than the British" in the first years of the ...

He concluded, he later wrote, that the troops were “ exceeding dirty & nasty people ” led by indifferent officers with an “ ...

George Washington had slipped the British noose again and escaped to safety. The Continental Army would live to fight another day. The Battle of Brooklyn in August of 1776 went badly for the ...

Did George Washington Order ... vulnerable to attack by the British. Washington eventually ... and supplied by the time they left to join the army. On Jan. 6, 1777, Washington wrote a ...

The French military leader Marquis de Lafayette and General George Washington at the Valley Forge encampment of the Continental Army during the winter of 1777–78 (AP) November 25, 2018 Share ...

The original George Washington statue in the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond. (Albert Herring) The statue was presented to the British as a gift in 1921, when relations between the United ...