On April 26, 1777, during the Revolutionary War, a large British raiding party attacked the American supply depot at Danbury, Connecticut, burning houses and barns and destroying stores of shoes, ...

George Washington at the Battle of Princeton (1783-84 ... is the earliest known portrait of the Revolutionary War general. Peale’s artistic practice was often fused with politics.

In 1787, General George Washington presided over the Constitutional Convention with sphinx-like inscrutability. He betrayed not a flicker of emotion as the architects of a new nation wrangled ...

The letter highlights Washington's belief that British attacks would be met with strong American resistance. A May 1777 letter from George Washington ... addressed the Battle of Danbury, where ...