Ethan Allen’s capture of Fort Ticonderoga in 1775 was little more than a sharp skirmish, but it had strategic consequences on Revolutionary War.   More »

John Maxwell placed a bomb aboard a cargo ship at City Point in August 1864 in a desperate bid to slow the flow of supplies to Union troops at Petersburg.   More »

In addition to the Founding Fathers, there were numerous female Revolutionary War heroes who contributed substantially to the fight for independence.   More »

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 »

President Franklin D. Roosevelt took the bullet-proofed yacht the USS Potomac on two of the greatest diplomatic missions of WWII.   More »