On Sept. 15, 1776, British forces occupied New York City in the American Revolution. In 1777 Polish Count Casimir Pulaski was commissioned a major general in the Continental Army. In 1789 novelist ...

The British army and navy, in a stunning display of global ... Washington's army in New York City on this day in history, August 22, 1776. "A naval spectacle of more than 90 vessels filled the ...

On this week in 1798, Irish-born army officer Edward Marcus Despard was arrested at his home in Soho on suspicion of conspiracy of treason. The London Times reported that the arrest took place ...