On this day in 1776, Benjamin Franklin and Robert Morris receive information that the French are going to purchase arms and ammunition in...

In a letter to his nephew, Lund Washington, plantation manager of Mount Vernon, General George Washington writes on this day in 1776 of...

British spy John André is court-martialed, found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging on this day in 1780. André, an accomplice of...

On this day in 1781, General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begins the siege known as the...

On this day in 1779, the Continental Congress appoints John Adams to travel to France as minister plenipotentiary in charge of...

On this day in 1776, the Continental Congress elects Benjamin Franklin, Silas Deane and Arthur Lee as agents of the diplomatic commission...

After aborting a poorly planned and ill-timed attack on the British-controlled city of Montreal, Continental Army Colonel Ethan Allen is...

The Judiciary Act of 1789 is passed by Congress and signed by President George Washington, establishing the Supreme Court of the United...

In New York City on this day in 1776, Nathan Hale, a Connecticut schoolteacher and captain in the Continental Army, is executed by the...

On this day in 1779, the Louisiana governor and Spanish military officer Bernardo de Galvez, with the aide of American troops and militia...