On Jan. 24, 1776, Henry Knox, a bold, portly bookseller and former Bostonian, solved the first problem. Having seized Fort Ticonderoga, in upstate New York, he and his men dragged the garrison’s ...

On August 27, 1776, over the crackle of musket fire and ... stone house occupied by British General Lord Cornwallis and his Redcoats. Thousands of British and Hessian soldiers flanked the Marylanders.

We, true Patriots, will never be made subservient and will not surrender our Constitutional right to self-defense and our individual American responsibility to secure our Nation, seeing that you ...