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

The law, which gives the president sweeping powers over non-citizens, was part of a set of statutes that emerged during the ...

John Ferling’s “Shots Heard Round the World” explores how France and Spain came to help the colonies throw off England’s rule ...

America's victory at Saratoga convinced France to enter the war. Afraid of instigating another English declaration of war, the French had been supporting the American army in secret. After ...

The Marquis de Lafayette (Sept 6, 1757 – May 29, 1834) was a French aristocrat, military officer, politician and liberal ...

NEW KENT — The American landscape is filled with grand ... as a witness to his enduring significance,” Allen said. Revolutionary War spy who was also a slave will get statue in New Kent ...

For the Republican Party, headed by vice president Thomas Jefferson, friendly feelings toward France persisted from the successful French-American alliance during the Revolutionary War.

John Paul Jones, American naval hero of the Revolutionary War. (AP) Oct. 18 at 6:17 a.m ... When Benjamin Franklin departed as minister to France, King Louis XVI presented him with a snuffbox ...