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 ...

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 ...

Thomas Gage, the commander in chief of British forces in North America ... the commander in chief of the Continental Army, June 15, 1775. George Washington's commission as general and commander ...

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.

As Pybus reports, Washington, despite the victory over British tyranny, remained ever-determined to regain his escaped property. He instructed his army contractor, Daniel Parker, to do his best to ...

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 ...

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 ...