What: The U.S. Postal Service to proudly unveil three individual commemorative stamps honoring the 250th anniversaries of the ...

With this resolution, the Continental Congress adopted the New England Army of Observation, making it a “continental” army — a united colonial fighting force — that could represent all 13 ...

Lavoisier had assumed control of France’s national gunpowder production. Considered the founder of the Chemical Revolution, ...

The Museum of the American Revolution on Saturday unveiled the largest exhibit of American Revolutionary War flags in more than two centuries, featuring about half of the 30 flags still known to exist ...

The army staged an ill-fated attack on Quebec, which provided the British a good base from which to invade New York and New England. As the Second Continental Congress approved the Declaration of ...

When the war started, he hadn’t worn a uniform for more than a decade. Suddenly, he has to build a continental army and lead it against the mighty British. He was a modest person thrust into ...

Shortly after taking command of the Continental Army in July 1775, General George Washington ordered an accounting of the patriots’ gunpowder stores. When he learned the total available was a ...

5,000 black men served in the Continental Army, and hundreds more served on the sea. Had George Washington been less ambivalent, more blacks might have participated on the Patriot side than with ...