Did George Washington have a British accent? As America’s first president, you’d hope he’d somewhat resemble what we all know now to be a US dialect, however, there’s not a single audio record to ...

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, ...

A letter written by George Washington in 1777 that ... battle before the British were able to advance. The British claimed victory, but Washington — in his 1777 letter — said he saw in the ...

George Washington was the first president of the ... collection of citizen-soldiers who banded together to defeat the British in the Revolutionary War and win the nation’s independence.

In 1848, George C. Washington sold his collection to Vermonter Henry Stevens, one of America’s earliest antiquarian booksellers. Stevens also happened to be an acquisitions agent for the British ...