George Washington was a Founding Father of the United States, the nation’s first president, and a commander of the ...

As a young officer in the French and Indian War, Washington was involved in a devastating friendly fire incident. Military ...

Four years of digging for artifacts in the Ligonier area have shed new light on a little-known “friendly fire” incident in George Washington’s military career and have put what turned out to be a ...

To the future President’s credit, Arkeonews wrote that “Washington, realizing the error, risked his life by galloping through ...

He concluded, he later wrote, that the troops were “ exceeding dirty & nasty people ” led by indifferent officers with an “ unaccountable kind of stupidity .” But the war would change Washington’s ...

He was called to service in the British Army during the French and Indian War on Jan. 28, 1755. For several years, he cycled in and out of public service of two kinds — taking up arms and ...

Years later, he wrote that his life was in as “much jeopardy as it ever had been before or since.” Washington was pursuing a ...

Going off Arnold’s intelligence, Gen. George Washington authorized Brig. Gen. Richard Montgomery and Arnold to expel the British from Quebec and liberate the colony.

Fourteen unknown Black men fought in the Battle of Princeton Nearly 250 years ago, the Continental Army under the command of George Washington secured a pivotal victory over British forces at ...

Military history buffs in London were probably perplexed to see the statue of George Washington, a gift presented by the United States to the United Kingdom more than a century ago, being taken ...

George Washington was born on Feb. 22, ... In 1942, Army Lt. Annie G. Fox became the first woman to receive a Purple Heart for her heroic actions during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

Written in 1777, the letter from George Washington is expected to sell for $150,000. Raab Collection. A rare letter from George Washington expressing his faith in the American Revolution—even ...