George Washington of Virginia, the commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, was elected the first ...

Chadds Ford was an ideal place back on Sept. 9, 1777, for Gen. George Washington’s Headquarters as his Continental Army plotted to attack the British ...

Yet Washington was aware that politics is perception — including the perception of his personal finances. As the national ...

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 participated on the Patriot side than with ...