When the British attacked Long Island in August, Washington’s troops faced heavy volleys of musket fire, fusillades of ...

"Above all, the active-duty U.S. Army should be substantially smaller and postured mostly for hemispheric defense," the paper ...

In 1776, as George Washington was leading the Continental Army through some of the earliest battles of the American Revolution, disease posed a greater threat to his forces than British troops.

recognizing the six years of military service served by Private Agrippa Hull in the Continental Army.

The family settled in Haddam Neck, Connecticut. When he was in his early 20s, Cuff enlisted in the Continental army, where he served from January, 1781 to January, 1784. After the war, Cuff ...

My route took me past Valley Forge, where ill-supplied and exhausted troops of the Continental Army hunkered down for the winter. When they entered the encampment, the troops under Gen.

HONOLULU -- The latest lawsuit to take aim at Hawaii’s gun laws challenges the state's ban on gun ownership for young adults 18 to 20 years old, which Second Amendment advocates say is an ...

He removed his shirt and showed them the old wounds. His candor and presence were a much-needed morale boost, as the Continental Army was dealing with the fallout of a series of devastating blows in ...

Washington won in a landslide without having to campaign. After serving as commander of the Continental Army and president of the Constitutional Convention, Washington was a national hero.

The people who created the U.S. Army did not want it to last forever. George Washington, the first commander of the Continental Army, wrote that "a large standing Army in time of Peace hath ever ...