Years later, he wrote that his life was in as “much jeopardy as it ever had been before or since.” Washington was pursuing a ...

Researchers identified the shipwreck as HMS Hind, a British frigate that intercepted American ships in the Atlantic before ...

Col. James Burd made an inspection tour of forts on the Pennsylvania frontier during the French and Indian War from Feb. 16 to March 10, 1758. Burd was a colonial American soldier who played an ...

Three decades before his election as the first president of the United States in 1789, George Washington commanded soldiers ...

In the Treaty of Paris France ceded Canada to Britain and the Louisiana Territory, including New Orleans, to Spain. Spain gave up its claim to Florida. Shortly after the Treaty, King George issued a ...