On April 26, 1777, during the Revolutionary War, a large British raiding party attacked the American supply depot at Danbury, Connecticut, burning houses and barns and destroying stores of shoes, ...

Feb. 22, 1732 George Washington is born in a modest house ... most hardscrabble farmers and small-time merchants, holding the British army at bay in Boston. Washington was determined to impose ...

A May 1777 letter from George Washington, written in Morristown ... came at a critical juncture for the Continental Army. Following a British attack on the town of Danbury, Connecticut, Washington ...

Washington’s military career began when he was 21 years old ... and that by the Secretary of Treasury Alexander Hamilton (supporter of the British). In 1794, George Washington suppressed the Whiskey ...

A letter written by George Washington in ... when the British took the war to Danbury, Conn., and raided the supply depot and burned military stores and equipment. The British encountered little ...

George Washington was born ... the Purple Heart is America’s oldest military award. No one knows for sure how many soldiers ever received it. Washington’s order was allowed to lapse after ...