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, ...

Famous for leading the ill-fated "Pickett's Charge" at Gettysburg, George ... himself in battle during the Mexican-American War and on the frontier, along the Texas border and in Washington ...

George Washington was the son of Augustine ... Near Toledo, Ohio, Washington sent federal troops to fight seven tribes of Native Americans in the Battle of Fallen Timbers in the summer of 1794.

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 ...