which pitted them against Britain in the American War for Independence. Ironically, this meant the French were now supporting their old foe, George Washington—apparently willing to overlook the ...

George Washington wasn’t just the father of his ... but not so the Union soldiers who fought the Civil War. They took a ...

George Washington, who had been leading the battle ... raid was a relatively small expedition in the bloody, drawn-out war for independence that would go on for six more years.

Mere days before the Declaration of Independence was signed in July ... a member of the elite guard responsible for protecting George Washington, was convicted of mutiny and sedition, and on ...

John Ferling’s “Shots Heard Round the World” explores how France and Spain came to help the colonies throw off England’s rule ...

"First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.” That famous description of George Washington ... claim her hard-won independence. By then Washington was more icon ...

Explore collections and stories related to the founding of the United States of America from the passage of the Stamp Act in 1765 to the signing of the Treaty of Paris on September 3, 1783.

During the Revolutionary War, conditions ... could forge a nation. Washington won the presidency by unanimous electoral vote in both 1788 and in 1792. Challenges Upon his inauguration as the first ...