Archaeologists have located the site of a historic friendly-fire incident that nearly cost George Washington his life.

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 ...

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 ...

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

While their images might not be immortalized on dollar bills or their stories ingrained into every high school syllabus, ...

Nearly 250 years ago, the Continental Army under the command of George Washington secured a pivotal victory over British forces at Princeton, its third triumph in just 10 days.

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 ...

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 ...