By Damon Penner Brigadier General Stephen Watts Kearny’s march from Fort Leavenworth in present-day Kansas to San Diego, California, during the Mexican War remains one of the greatest feats in
Walmart has teamed with The Army Historical Foundation to promote the events and exhibitions marking the Army’s 250th Birthday.
By Matthew J. Seelinger In the early years of the Revolutionary War, American militia forces and Continental troops demonstrated they had the will to take on the British Army, inflicting
Dear Members: On 19 April 1775, Sylvanus Wood stood at Lexington with the other minutemen, awaiting the British regulars marching to Concord. Wood was dressed in civilian clothes, as were
On 20 July 1807, congressmen, department heads, military officers, and others gathered at a small, 4.5-acre cemetery in Square 1115 of Washington City, the fledgling capital of the new nation.
By Dallas Looney Fort Hunt, located along the Potomac River in northern Virginia, was part of George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate and remained part of the property until 1892, when the War
After years of growing tensions between Great Britain and its North American colonies, on 19 April 1775, open hostilities erupted when British regulars and Massachusetts militiamen clashed at Lexington and
