The home at 114 E. Union St. in Burlington, where he later lived, still stands. Three years ago, a bronze plaque ...

From the beginning of the American experiment, one of its animating principles has been limited government overseen by ...

As the nation prepares to celebrate America’s semiquincentennial, George Washington’s Mount Vernon will host a full day of ...

The summer has officially kicked off. School is out, pools are opened and the United States Army is celebrating its 250th ...

May saw the death of a retired U.S. Supreme Court justice who came the high court as a Republican but became a favorite among ...

The colonial British customs schooner HMS Gaspee might have quietly faded from history had its officers not tangled with Coventry merchant Nathanael Greene, who would become the second-in-command of ...

Tom Paine is one of the forgotten names of the American Revolution, but it can be argued that no other man was as important ...

In every battle fought since the United States’ founding, U.S. Army troops have relied on their issue longarms, from muskets ...

The U.K. will build new nuclear-powered attack submarines and create an army ready to fight a war in Europe as part of a ...

A conservator at the St. Augustine Lighthouse and Maritime Museum recently uncovered a button from George ... Army ― an item which had been underwater in a concretion at a British loyalist ...

George Washington would call Francisco his “one-man army.” “He managed to survive ... single-handedly dispatched a group of feared British dragoons. “He was immensely brave.

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.