He concluded, he later wrote, that the troops were “ exceeding dirty & nasty people ” led by indifferent officers with an “ ...

To the future President’s credit, Arkeonews wrote that “Washington, realizing the error, risked his life by galloping through ...

When George Washington, from Virginia, arrived in Cambridge 250 years ago, one of the first things he did was talk to his ...

General and President George Washington was a man of the 18th century in great ways and bad, as he led the colonies to victory while also owning (and likely bedding) enslaved women. Courtesy of ...

Unquestionably it was a foundational document for America, calling for unity against Great Britain in the struggle for ...

The former California governor is the latest to recognize that the most remarkable thing about the first president was not ...

Embittered, George Washington retired to Mount Vernon, never to bloviate again. He died in December of that year, his face forever memorialized on the dollar bill. For General Washington, Retired ...

It’s too bad Thomas Jefferson isn’t around. Otherwise, he could have commented on Joe Biden’s attempt to tie himself to General George Washington and the winter of 1777-1778 when he and his ...

General George Washington gave a final goodbye to his soldiers at the close of the Revolutionary War on this day in history, Dec. 4, 1783, at the historic Lower Manhattan tavern.

General George Washington, in a bold and calculated move, directs a surprise attack on a British outpost intended to bolster the morale of an ever smaller Continental Army.