The first true commander-in-chief of the armed forces to lead the Revolutionary War was not, as many believe, George Washington. It was a man named Artemas Ward.

A USS George Washington (CVN-73) crewmember believed lost at sea while the carrier operated near Australia was “a proud ...

Simmons, Linda Crocker, "Charles Peale Polk, 1776-1822: a limner and his likenesses," Washington, D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1981, no. 17. Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1972. Summary ...

George Washington was a Founding Father of the United States, the nation’s first president, and a commander of the Continental Army, leading the patriots to victory against the British Army ...