The first true commander-in-chief of the armed forces to lead the Revolutionary War was not, as many believe, George ...

Contrast that with the “big, beautiful” spending bill being steered through Congress by today’s career politicians, who ...

Being a Virginian made Washington a symbol of the Continental Congress’s effort to show that beleaguered Boston was not alone ...

Thousands of merchants and other businessmen from Massachusetts down to Georgia were quite wary of what belligerence to England might do to their livelihoods – and thus as of early the following year, ...

Enter the first president: George Washington. He was the commander in chief of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War and was revered after the conflict, says Denver Brunsman, a history ...

George Washington famously became America’s Cincinnatus by voluntarily resigning his appointment as commander in chief of the United States armed forces. Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus was a Roman ...

Sunday marks 250 years since George Washington left Mount Vernon to travel to Philadelphia where he was appointed commander-in-chief of the new Continental Army. It marks the Second Continental ...