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 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.

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 ...

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 ...

George Washington authorized Brig ... In March 1776, the Continental Army emplaced the guns overlooking the city, which made the British position untenable, forcing their evacuation.

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.

The Massachusetts militias had forced a British retreat from Lexington ... After all, the core of George Washington’s army consisted of a small group of patriots who distinguished themselves ...

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 ...

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 ...