As America get ready to mark its 250th birthday, we take a look at the time the British troops raided Bergen County towns.

By Henry HoweDirector, Fort Jackson Museum CommunityOn June 14, 1775, the Second Continental Congress established the Continental Army, marking the ...

Well, that didn’t take long. A letter George Washington wrote in Morristown while commanding the Continental Army sold for $150,000 within days of going on the market, according to the seller.

March 17 is officially observed as Evacuation Day in Boston, even though St. Patrick’s Day falls on the same date. Here's the ...

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 ...

I feel myself unequal to this business” confessed John Adams, of the “grand scene open before me—a Congress.” In the fall of ...

The U.S. Army will celebrate its 250th birthday on June 14, 2025, commemorating the Army’s distinguished service to our nation. The central theme for this year’s celebration is ...

The Congress acted as a makeshift central government, creating the Continental Army, electing George Washington as its commander and issuing paper currency. It asked each colony to provide ...

On the morning of March 10, 1783, an anonymous letter began circulating through the military camp in Newburgh, New York, ...

Evacuation Day is celebrated on March 17 and commemorates when, in 1776, George Washington and the Continental Army drove the British forces out of Boston, ending the 11-month siege that Britain ...