George Washington of Virginia, the commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, was elected the first ...

Chadds Ford was an ideal place back on Sept. 9, 1777, for Gen. George Washington’s Headquarters as his Continental Army plotted to attack the British ...

is a plantation owner who dies when George is 11. June 15, 1775 Having served with distinction in the French and Indian War, Washington is appointed as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army ...

Army History, No. 62 (Winter 2006), pp. 4-19 (16 pages) The influx of European influences in this period is detailed in Robert K. Wright, Jr., The Continental Army, Army Lineage Series (Washington, ...

Yet Washington was aware that politics is perception — including the perception of his personal finances. As the national ...

In 1776, as George Washington was leading the Continental Army through some of the earliest battles of the American Revolution, disease posed a greater threat to his forces than British troops.

When George Washington was offered command of the Continental Army by Congress in 1775, he accepted the role, but not the salary. He reasoned that his leadership had to be seen as an act of ...

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 ...

There’s a historic myth that George Washington rejected an offer to serve as king instead of president for leading the foundling nation to military victory in the Revolutionary War. Historians trace ...

The morning of December 26, 1776, did not start according to plan. The night before, George Washington had led 2,400 Continental Army soldiers across the Delaware River, thinking that two ...