Thaddeus Lowe and his Union Army Balloon Corps pioneered aerial reconnaissance over some of the first battlefields of the American Civil War.   More »

A preemptive strike by Britishe regulars to destroy Patriot supplies at Concord ended in a fighting retreat to Boston on April 19, 1775.   More »

Although it suffered a stinging defeat at Brandywine, George Washington’s Continental Army made an audacious attack the following month.   More »

The sergeant’s halberd and the officer’s pontoon survived as symbols of rank well into the Napoleonic Era.   More »

William Wells had a knack for gathering intelligence that made him indispensable to the U.S. military during the early years of the Republic.   More »

Washington evened the score against the British in the winter of 1776. When they least expected it, he scored victories at Trenton and Princeton.   More »

America’s first military museum and FDR’s historic home are the two military history sites in New York State that you shouldn’t miss.   More »

U.S. Marine infantrymen engaged Chinese forces who were unsuccessful in trapping the Marines at the Chosin Reservoir.   More »

With Confederate forces in full retreat, alert Union forces charged through a gap in the Rebel column, capturing 8,000 soldiers at Sayler’s Creek.

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After Lord Cornwallis withdrew the bulk of his British forces following the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in March 1781, American General Nathanael Greene moved his Continental forces against the remaining British occupiers in South Carolina.   More »