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Historians and researchers at Fort Ligonier believe they have pinpointed the location of a “friendly fire” incident.
As the country counts down to its semiquincentennial next year, historians in New York’s North Country are taking another ...
The exhibit, called "Washington's Headquarters and the Memory of the American Revolution," highlights the home's "pivotal role in the Revolution, from its time as George Washington’s headquarters ...
Before there was a nation, there was the Army. The United States Army began on June 14, 1775, as the Continental Congress ...
With the governor having fled, the Governor’s Palace is ransacked and the governor’s property sold at auction.
William Thompson deserves plaudits as one of many whose early service led to the signing of the Declaration of Independence in July of 1776.
Four years of digging for artifacts in the Ligonier area have shed new light on a little-known “friendly fire” incident in ...
William Thompson, a man rarely if ever mentioned in American history books, became the first commissioned colonel in the ...
President Abraham Lincoln, with young son Tad and Senator Charles Sumner, salutes a detachment of African-American Union troops in Richmond, Virginia at the end of the American Civil War. Published in ...
The festival includes Revolutionary-era military encampments, musters, and re-enactments, as well as demonstrations of ...
According to research done by the U.S. Army War College, William Thompson's commission as the colonel of the Pennsylvania ...
Our respective national days were a bit more complicated this year, with Canadians who usually extend good wishes to our American friends at their barbecues being a bit more reticent to do so. South ...