As the nation prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday in 2026, spend 2025 visiting these 12 Revolutionary War sites in New ...

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While the Patriots were ultimately victorious in the American Revolution, choosing sides and deciding whether to fight in the war was far ... on the sea. Had George Washington been less ambivalent ...

During the Revolutionary War, conditions were dismal for American colonists ... Challenges Upon his inauguration as the first president on April 30, 1789, George Washington assumed office under the ...

Every Christmas morning, Lance Peterson becomes a drummer in General George Washington's Army ... Scientists NORAD’s Santa tracker was a Cold War morale boost. Now it attracts millions of ...

After defeating the world’s largest empire in the Revolutionary War, the newly-minted United ... In doing so, they unanimously elected George Washington to be the first U.S. president. Upon hearing ...

"First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.” That famous description of George Washington by his friend and fellow patriot Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee is ...

There’s a historic myth that George Washington rejected an offer to serve as king instead of president for leading the foundling nation to military victory in the Revolutionary War.

The new Apple TV+ historical drama Franklin chronicles Benjamin Franklin's time in France during the Revolutionary War, during which he sought help for George Washington's beleaguered Continental ...

click image for close-up After the revolutionary war ... the Battle of Cowpens recorded in John Marshall's biography of George Washington. According to Marshall, "a waiter, too small to wield ...