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

The commander-in-chief initially barred black soldiers from joining the ranks, but he came to understand the value—both moral ...

George Washington’s embrace of science-based medical treatments—despite stiff opposition from the Continental Congress—prevented a potentially disastrous defeat, and made him the country’s ...

Two hundred and fifty years ago, the Second Continental Congress appointed George Washington to be commander in chief of the newly formed American army. Never before had a war been fought for the ...

Written by Paul Mullins On June 14, 1775—more than a year before the Declaration of Independence was signed and well before the U.S. Constitution was ever drafted—the Second Continental Congress made ...

From the beginning of the American experiment, one of its animating principles has been limited government overseen by ...

Thus the Continental Congress commissioned George Washington as commander in chief of the Continental Army, June 19, 1775. Washington, Appointed Commander in Chief.

It happened 250 years ago this very week… “I do not think myself equal to the Command I am honored with.”  It was with these ...

Congress voted to make one of the grand monuments in Lafayette Square across from the White House an ode to Baron Friedrich ...