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, ...

You know about the leprechauns and the Irish and the pot of gold, but did you know that St. Patrick's Day has another ...

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 ...

At the end of the American Revolution there were several clauses in the treaty of peace between the mother country and her ...

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 ...

Undermining regulatory independence in America and Britain will deter investment, write William Kovacic and John Vickers ...

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 ...

Raab Collection A rare letter from George Washington expressing ... such measures with a great degree of caution,” Washington wrote of the British. “For tho’ they afforded themselves the ...

The country’s two political parties – the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans – were increasingly hostile to one another, and the young nation was sinking deeper into a foreign policy crisis ...

The letter highlights Washington's belief that British attacks would be met with strong American resistance. A May 1777 letter from George Washington, written in Morristown and reflecting his ...