HMS Roebuck on the Delaware
The Royal Navy was designed not just protect the island of Britain and its commerce, but to project Great Britain’s power across the seas….
The Royal Navy was designed not just protect the island of Britain and its commerce, but to project Great Britain’s power across the seas….
A fire fight erupted on the densely wooded Pennsylvania ridge. Caught in a crossfire from three sides, men of the 2nd Connecticut Regiment began…
The British evacuation of Philadelphia had been under way for several days. Given the honor to be among the last units to leave, the…
Common wisdom paints William Allen, a wealthy and prominent Pennsylvanian, as a traitor to the cause of American independence. As the revolution grew, the…
In his last moments, with calculated efficiency, he bolted the bedroom door so no one could interrupt the execution of his final act. Charles…
On an October day in 1820, a fourteen-year-old African American boy trudged along a rural lane near the town of Barkhamsted, Connecticut. Two hundred…
In late November 1777, Col. William Grayson and a group of gentlemen gathered in a tavern near Whitemarsh, Pennsylvania, a mile and half in…