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Wikimedia Commons/Not found Tun Tavern On November 10, 1775, the Continental Congress commissioned Samuel Nicholas to raise ...
Historians and researchers at Fort Ligonier believe they have pinpointed the location of a “friendly fire” incident.
George Washington was a Founding Father of the United States, the nation’s first president, and a commander of the ...
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WCAX on MSNRouses Point exhibit to recount 1775 Invasion of Quebec
As the country counts down to its semiquincentennial next year, historians in New York’s North Country are taking another ...
Years later, he wrote that his life was in as “much jeopardy as it ever had been before or since.” Washington was pursuing a ...
George Washington—more than a general and statesman—was also a pioneering farmer. He fertilized his fields using animal waste and lime, ...
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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNArchaeologists Discover Site Where George Washington Stopped a Friendly Fire Incident by Blocking Muskets With His Sword
Three decades before his election as the first president of the United States in 1789, George Washington commanded soldiers ...
The exhibit, called "Washington's Headquarters and the Memory of the American Revolution," highlights the home's "pivotal ...
Before there was a nation, there was the Army. The United States Army began on June 14, 1775, as the Continental Congress ...
Most people associate George Washington with cherry trees. Supposedly, a young George Washington confessed to his dad that he ...
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