Army History, No. 62 (Winter 2006), pp. 4-19 (16 pages) The influx of European influences in this period is detailed in Robert K. Wright, Jr., The Continental Army, Army Lineage Series (Washington, ...

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 ...

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

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.

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.