Articles related to "Continental Army"

The German officer took George Washington's disparate fighters and molded them into a disciplined army that would go on to win the Revolutionary War.

Before George Washington became America's first President, he was its first general. General George Washington was indispensable to winning the American Revolution.

On September 11, 1777, the Continental Army under Gen. George Washington lost one of the biggest battles of the American Revolution to British forces at Chadd's Ford, PA.

The state chapter of the Society of the Cincinnati started here after the Revolutionary War.

George Washington is remembered for leading the United States to victory in the American Revolution and as the first President of the United States.

General George Washington proved to be a decisive military leader during the War for Independence, and one who benefited from luck as well.

British General John Burgoyne's military career is most noted in the US for his surrender to the American army at Saratoga, bringing France into the American Revolution.

Many American women and their children accompanied their men to the battlefield. Martha left Mt. Vernon to join her husband, George at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.

In 1780 Savannah and Charleston fell to the British. Gen. Cornwallis now pushed into the interior of South Carolina to enlist Loyalist support and to subdue the colony.

It was June 1777. America desperately needed a victory to save the revolution and bring France into the war. She found her salvation near the town of Saratoga, New York.

It was December 1776. New York City had fallen to the British and the Continentals were in retreat. As winter closed in, the end of the glorious cause seemed imminent.

As a central part of its newly devised "southern strategy," British military forces laid siege to the rebel stronghold and key seaport of Charleston, South Carolina.

Baron von Steuben trained soldiers at Valley Forge during the American Revolution and enacted important regulations for the training and maintaining of the American Army.

The murder of Jane McCrae brought a surge of volunteers to the Patriot cause during the American Revolution against the British and their commissioned Indians.

Margaret Corbin, Molly Pitcher and Deborah Sampson actively participated in the American Revolution and fought for democracy and the freedom we now enjoy.

Led by Colonel John Glover and his regiment from Marblehead, Massachusetts, a small group of Continental soldiers managed to fight off the British at Pelham, New York.

Charles Lee is one of the more fascinating, eccentric, and forgotten characters to have taken part in the American Revolutionary War.

At age 16, Eliza Pinckney had a gift for business ventures and horticulture. Cultivating indigo plants, she created a new, thriving, colonial export.

He announced his retirement as commanding general of the army less than three weeks later, saving America from the fate of republics that turned to military dictatorship.

This essay examines the balancing of states' rights and national power in The Articles of Confederation.

The Society is an American military, patriotic, beneficent, social and non-political organization formed by the commissioned officers of the Continental Army.

The most complete biography to date of this forgotten Prussian American Revolution Hero provides new insight about a questionable past and an unquestionable contribution!

If you enjoy early American history, particularly the American Revolution and founding era, here are some books your library must have.

Guilford Courthouse was the decisive battle of the Southern Campaign in the American Revolution, and forced General Cornwallis to retreat to Yorktown.

The patriots developed a naval force to go against the best navy in the world to gain an advantage during the American Revolution.

In 1763, following the surrender of New France, the former French colony was turned over to Great Britain and renamed the Province of Quebec.

The Catoctin Iron Furnace represents an example of how iron smelting took on such an integral part of America's economic growth.

The life and times of the first President of the United States of America.

Called the definitive biography, the first Secretary of War is restored to American consciousness as if being led to a few gold bars from his memorialized Fort Knox.

"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." That's what the newspaper editor tells James Stewart's character in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence. It's also what h

Part one of a three-part examination of the Mohawk War Chief Thayendanegea (Joseph Brant) and his fight against the American colonies.

Christmas traditions today in the U.S. have certain underlying themes that originated from the first Dutch and British settlers of New Jersey in the early 1700s.

Though St. Patrick's Day has become identified with Irish nationalism and Roman Catholic observance, its origins in America were Protestant, and British.

Franklin and Sampson vowed to protect home and country. Franklin, stood down an angry mob. Sampson, disguised as a soldier, fought in the Continental Army

Whether you are visiting Virginia for the first time or have lived here all your life, take a look at some places in Virginia that will help you uncover history.

During the American War of Independence American Colonial military leaders sought to fight a war of defense utilizing expansive geography.

Female lives in past centuries were not as well documented as Sarah Palin's is, but ancestor Deborah (Sampson) Gannett gained attention as a Revolutionary War soldier.

A social activist, abolitionist, supporter of suffrage, author, playwright, poetess and lyricist, Julia Ward Howe is an imposing monument to womanhood.

The Revolutionary War had ended. Across the nation Continental Army officers were organizing the Society of the Cincinnati, America's oldest patriotic organization.

The Catoctin Iron Furnace represents an example of how iron smelting took on such an integral part of America's economic growth.

Although short on genealogical data, Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War provides detailed soldier service accounts.

What other historic events occurred in United States on September 11? Have any other life changing events happened on the Eleventh of September?

The Johnson Brothers - James, Baker and Roger - originally owned the Catoctin Furnace was built at the foot of the Catoctin Mountains in Frederick County, Maryland.

During the war Col. John Laurens fought for something almost no one else did, especially aristocratic white slave owners from the south: Freedom and Justice for slaves!

American patriots in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina won a critical victory against British Loyalists at a time when such a victory was desperately needed.

The Battle of Princeton, taking place just days after the stunning American victory at Trenton, gave the rebels new confidence and drove the British from New Jersey.

Catoctin Furnace played a role in building the America for more than a century, but times change and iron smelting technology moved beyond what the furnace could do.

James Monroe was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia in 1758.

A 9-year-old shows bravery and his true spirit of freedom, joining the same midnight ride ascribed to Paul Revere, calling Minutemen to defend liberty he had yet to enjoy

Before the Revolutionary War, a self-styled Aristocracy substituted slave labor for "artisan and mechanic" contributions of the middle class in the Northern Colonies.