The Liberty Bell got its name from being rung July 8, 1776, to call the citizens of Philadelphia together to hear the Declaration of Independence …
On July 2, 1776, from his headquarters in New York, General Washington issued his general orders: “The time is now near at hand which must …
On May 31, 1776, George Washington wrote to his younger brother John Augustine Washington, We expect a very bloody Summer of it at New York. …
The rag-tag and green Continental Army would need heaven’s help. In April 1776, they arrived in New York, a city with a large population of …
General William Livingston made a resolution to Congress which passed without dissent: “We earnestly recommend that Friday, the 17th day of May be observed by …
Gen. Washington’s bold plan to take back Boston, would have trapped him on Dorchester Heights early in the war without an escape route in which …
Toward the end of 1775, Muhlenberg was authorized to raise and command as its colonel the 8th Virginia Regiment of the Continental Army. After George …
Quote from Thomas Paine’s Common Sense: “But where, says some, is the King of America? I’ll tell you. Friend, he reigns above, and doth not …
Four days before the “Shot Heard ‘Round the World,” John Hancock circulates this declaration to the citizens of Massachusetts: “In circumstances dark as these, it …
The first session of the Continental Congress opened the beginning of September in the year 1774 with prayer in Carpenter’s Hall, Philadelphia. Threatened by the …
