By Henry HoweDirector, Fort Jackson Museum CommunityWhen the American Revolution began on April 19, 1775, the colonies relied on local militias to ...

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.

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 ...

Army History, No. 117 (Fall 2020), pp. 6-27 (22 pages) Benjamin H. Newcomb, “Washington’s Generals and the Decision to Quarter at Valley Forge,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 117, no.

A year later, when Washington was made head of the U.S. Army during a period of growing tension with France, the general conditioned his acceptance on Hamilton's being appointed second-in-command.

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 ...

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 ...