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Revolutionary War Soldiers Slated for Reburial 243 Years After Battle
.image-13791675 { max-height: 100%; --left: 49.62%; --top: 32.77%; } The rediscovered remains of American Revolutionary War soldiers who died in South Carolina more than 240 years ago are set to be...
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Abigail Adams Persevered Through Siege and Smallpox to Support the Revolution
.image-13790561 { max-height: 100%; --left: 49.88%; --top: 67.11%; } On June 17, 1775, a vicious battle rocked Bunker Hill in Charlestown, Mass. That first major engagement of the Revolution saw...
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The Challenge of Portraying America’s First President in Film
.image-13792526 { max-height: 100%; --left: 49.62%; --top: 31.71%; } Farmer, surveyor, Founding Father, first American commander in chief. These are just a few of the ways President George Washington...
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Precision vs. Propaganda: Some Painters Meticulously Researched Their...
.image-13791939 { max-height: 100%; --left: 48.00%; --top: 22.95%; } The earliest depictions of war served one purpose: to emphasize the invincible might of the leaders who commissioned them. A stroke...
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This Force of French and Allied Warriors Snowshoed 300 Miles to Terrorize a...
.image-13791950 { max-height: 100%; --left: 50.00%; --top: 50.00%; } The ragged force of 250 French Canadian, Abenaki, Huron and Mohawk warriors hunkered down in the snowy underbrush just before...
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This British Officer Developed a Revolutionary Rifle Whose Worth He Was Never...
.image-13791958 { max-height: 100%; --left: 49.95%; --top: 55.00%; } It was 1760, in the midst of the Seven Years’ War, and 16-year-old Cornet Patrick Ferguson was having the time of his life. He and...
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A 1760 Fight for This Small Riverine Garrison Proved the Key to Canada for...
For New France—Louis XV’s colonial dominion in North America—1759 had been a disaster, a year marred by crushing losses to British-led forces amid the French and Indian War, a sideshow of the broader...
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Clothes May Not Make the Man, But These Commanders’ Personal Effects Are...
.image-13793398 { max-height: 100%; --left: 46.53%; --top: 30.04%; } Like it or not, war can sometimes be a fashion statement. Among the multivarious uniforms that distinguish one unit from another,...
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Top 10 Commanders Who Became Unlikely Stars of Military History
.image-13794266 { max-height: 100%; --left: 60.20%; --top: 19.67%; } Judas Maccabeus (190-160 bce) The third of five sons born to Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, priest (cohen) of Modein—the...
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Thomas Jefferson, Grave Digger
While a number of enslaved African Americans looked on, 40-year-old Thomas Jefferson, shovel in hand, began poking into the side of the large Indian mound. Spherical in shape and 40 feet in diameter,...
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Did Scottish Warriors Invent The Man Bag?
.image-13794364 { max-height: 100%; --left: 48.78%; --top: 25.45%; } Recommended for you Kilts allowed Scottish warriors increased mobility in battle as they dashed around the Highlands, but these...
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Green and Mysterious, Absinthe Caused Controversy Wherever it Was Poured
Artemisia absinthium is a green, leafy plant native to Europe, but one that has since migrated to North America. Commonly called the wormwood plant, its flowers and leaves are the main ingredient of...
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George Washington Needed to Keep His Spies Hidden. So He Financed a Secret...
.image-13794229 { max-height: 100%; --left: 45.06%; --top: 33.02%; } Fishkill, New York was arguably the fulcrum of espionage efforts by Patriots in the American Revolution. Fishkill is where Founding...
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Bombs Burst in Air Over This Famed War of 1812 Fort
.image-13794918 { max-height: 100%; --left: 55.63%; --top: 61.16%; } I shall sup tonight in Baltimore—or in Hell!” Thus spoke British Maj. Gen. Robert Ross, who commanded His Majesty George III’s land...
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‘Boston Harbor a Teapot Tonight’: The Revolutionary Act, 250 Years On
John Hicks made it home well after midnight on that chilly December night in 1773. Not wanting to wake his wife—and thus incur her wrath—he quietly entered his house in Cambridge, Mass., gingerly...
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Lake Erie’s Distinctive New England Feel
.image-13795601 { max-height: 100%; --left: 21.53%; --top: 26.20%; } If you travel through Northeast Ohio, take the time to get off the turnpikes and interstates to travel through towns like Burton,...
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The World’s Most Visitor-Friendly Battlefields
.image-13795021 { max-height: 100%; --left: 49.92%; --top: 40.72%; } Battlefields are where history happened—for better or for worse. As Winston Churchill once observed, “Battles are the punctuation...
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Why The War Hammer Was A Mighty Weapon
.image-13795518 { max-height: 100%; --left: 79.18%; --top: 53.56%; } The war hammer, as crude as it seems, was a practical solution to a late-medieval arms race between offense and defense. From the...
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This German Baroness Dodged Cannonballs During the American Revolution
.image-13794387 { max-height: 100%; --left: 40.69%; --top: 30.79%; } Frederika Charlotte Louise, Baroness Riedesel zu Eisenbach—better known as Baroness von Riedesel—was the wife of Baron Friedrich...
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America, It Seems More and More, Could Use a Politician Like Henry Clay Again
.image-13795310 { max-height: 100%; --left: 56.65%; --top: 46.32%; } Henry Clay, nicknamed the Star of the West and the Great Compromiser, served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and a...
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