Sunday marks 250 years since George Washington left Mount Vernon ... During the Revolutionary War, Washington only briefly returned to Mount Vernon in 1781, just before the Yorktown campaign ...

A conservator at the St. Augustine Lighthouse and Maritime Museum recently uncovered a button from George Washington's Continental ... a British colony as the war ended." One idea for how the ...

All 592 of the George Washington Bridge's original suspender ropes have been replaced, the Port Authority announced Thursday. This is a major milestone in a $2 billion project to restore the ...

George Washington was born on Feb. 22, in 1732, so to celebrate let’s talk about his plan to honor the weary troops that fought the Revolutionary War. In 1782, as the Revolutionary War was ...

A statue of George Washington ... “We also saw Washington surrender his sword to the Continental Congress at the conclusion of the Revolutionary War,” DeSantis said. “He could have been ...

A letter written by George Washington in 1777 that is valued at $150,000 is up for sale this Presidents Day. The letter, acquired by the Raab Collection, was written during the Revolutionary War ...

George Washington was commanding the Continental Army and staying in Morristown when he wrote an optimistic letter on the prospects of winning the Revolutionary War despite a recent defeat.

On April 26, 1777, during the Revolutionary War, a large British raiding party ... It seemed like a huge loss for the American forces under Gen. George Washington, who had been leading the battle ...

The letter highlights Washington's belief that British attacks would be met with strong American resistance. A May 1777 letter from George Washington ... mines fueling the war effort.

But in Boston, when word got out that George Washington’s books were destined for the collection of their British cousins, a bidding war erupted. The asking price? Five thousand dollars — or about the ...

Though rarely honored these days exactly on Feb. 22, his actual birth date, “Presidents Day” is officially still Washington’s birthday. And that’s entirely right and proper, as every ...