Harry Washington ... ranks of the British troops. But the tide of war was not going in Britain’s favor, which portended danger to those who had sought freedom behind its army’s lines.

George Washington and operated until the end of the war. It was given the mission of spying on the British army and reporting on troop movements, positions, fortifications and plans in the New ...

The British army and navy, in a stunning display of global force projection and military logistics, invaded Brooklyn by sea and launched the defeat of George Washington's army in New York City on ...

George Washington logged his journeys in letters ... Howe set up two brigades. The British army had a total of 9,000 men. Washington’s army consisted of 8,000 Continentals and 3,000 militiamen.

aboard the HMS Prince George; he was the first member of the British royal family to set foot in the American colonies. Continental Army spies soon discovered that only a light security detail ...

As commander in chief of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, George Washington recruited untrained colonial forces for six years until the surrender of the British in October 1781.

George Washington gave a final goodbye ... The future first president of the United States led his army through six years of warfare against the British ahead of the triumphant Battle of Yorktown ...

The British actively recruited slaves ... 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 ...

George Washington’s Continental Army, having suffered a series of major setbacks in ... These troops were fighting on the British side, sent to America by their greedy monarchs. The victory over these ...

George Washington was commanding the ... Event very Alarming to the Country” — a British victory in Danbury, Connecticut. Continental Army supplies and equipment had been burned, Holden ...

After years of British royal rule ... Enter the first president: George Washington. He was the commander in chief of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War and was revered after ...