Aware he was defending ‘a slaughter pen,’ Colonel William Moultrie prepared to fight the best the British had at The Battle of Sullivan’s Island.   More »

An officer who led from the front, William Washington was the essence of a bold and dashing cavalry officer during the American Revolution.   More »

The New York Grenadier Company performed a crucial role during the Brooklyn Campaign.   More »

Shawnee Indians and Virginians waged a thunderous and bloody battle at Point Pleasant during the conflict now known as Lord Dunmore’s War.   More »

The U.S. Army suffered grievously at the hands of Little Turtle in the Northwest Indian War.   More »

The Battle of Kings Mountain during the Revolutionary War was a major defeat for the British and young Lt. Col. Patrick Ferguson.   More »

By Christopher Miskimon
Special Forces Sergeant Nick Brokhausen awoke to the taste of dirt in his mouth and the crump of exploding mortar bombs. Above him there were voices but he could not tell who they were. Hands pulled him from the ground where he had been lying face down. Nick   More »

General George Washington struggled to keep the Continental Army intact during the harsh winter of 1770-80 at the Morristown encampment.   More »

Louis Antoine de Bougainville made a name for himself fighting in the forested wilds of North America and circumnavigating the globe.   More »

By Steve Ossad

Afew months after the Normandy campaign and with other fronts competing for the American public’s attention, Lt. Col. S.L.A. “Slam” Marshall, a hard-living Chicago newspaperman, World War I veteran, and deputy historian in the European Theater, hand carried the first of the War Departmemt campaign publications, Omaha Beachhead,to   More »