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

To the future President’s credit, Arkeonews wrote that “Washington, realizing the error, risked his life by galloping through ...

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

As a young officer in the French and Indian War, Washington was involved in a devastating friendly fire incident. Military veterans are helping archaeologists excavate the location.

Most people associate George Washington with cherry trees. Supposedly, a young George Washington confessed to his dad that he ...

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

The two bottles come characteristic of styles from the 1750s and were placed in a forgotten pit.

George Washington mandated Revolutionary War troops be inoculated against smallpox A viral image claims Washington made the vaccine mandatory. It's mostly true.

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