George Washington was commanding the Continental Army and staying in Morristown when he wrote an optimistic letter on the prospects of winning the Revolutionary War despite a recent defeat.

That famous description of George Washington ... command men. He got his chance a year later, when the Second Continental Congress appointed him commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.

Well, that didn’t take long. A letter George Washington wrote in Morristown while commanding the Continental Army sold for $150,000 within days of going on the market, according to the seller.

Had George Washington been less ambivalent, more blacks might have participated on the Patriot side than with the Loyalists. When he took command of the Continental Army in 1775, Washington barred ...

George Washington was the first president of ... Well, that likely varied a bit when he was commanding his army from 1775 to 1783. And, as it turns out, we know a bit more about the breakdown ...

Soldiers of Fort George G. Meade Garrison stood in formation Wednesday as commanding general of the Joint Task Force-National Capital Region and the U.S. Army Military District of Washington ...

George Washington was born on ... The Purple Heart wasn’t revived until Feb. 22, 1932, on Washington’s 200th birthday. Designed by Elizabeth Will, an Army heraldic specialist, the modern ...

Located in Maryland, midway between the cities of Baltimore, Annapolis and Washington, DC, Fort George G ... the U.S. Army Recruiting Command, the Defense Information School, the Defense Courier ...