The first true commander-in-chief of the armed forces to lead the Revolutionary War was not, as many believe, George ...

In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson issued a presidential proclamation establishing a national Flag Day on June 14, according ...

President Trump spoke briefly after watching the procession of troops and military vehicles, hailing the Army at the event ...

The largely peaceful protests during the "No Kings Day" demonstration in downtown Los Angeles took an intense turn in the ...

Womack and Daines put forward their measures ahead of Flag Day on Saturday, the annual observance commemorating when the Second Continental Congress adopted the United States' first flag in 1777.

On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress adopted a resolution on the ... A flag of this design was first carried into battle less than three months later, on Sept. 11, 1777, in the Battle ...

Leaders of South Carolina's early Continental Regiments, including William Moultrie and Francis Marion, sacrificed much in ...

At the time, the disease caused by the variola virus killed as many as one ... Continental Congress was convinced. The lawmakers repealed bans on variolation across the colonies, the first major ...

The First Continental ... The next day, Congress voted to form, from this nucleus, the 1st American Regiment for national service. By the fall of 1784, the whole U.S. Army was one regiment ...

Flags should always hang freely but never with the stars down, except ... The first national observance of Flag Day was on June 14, 1877 — 100 years after the Continental Congress adopted ...