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

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.

During the American Revolution, George Washington, the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, approved a plan to kidnap a British Royal Navy Admiral and a 17-year-old midshipman. The plot was ...

After the Battle of Long Island on August 27, 1776, the Continental Army retreated, surrendering control of New York City and its valuable harbor to the British. As his men marched, General George ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...