Newly uncovered remnants of an army barracks in Colonial Williamsburg offer new clues into the lives of America's first ...

A nearly 250-year-old drawing of Continental Army soldiers and camp followers has been donated to Philadelphia’s Museum of the American Revolution. The pen-and-ink piece is one of the few ...

Army History, No. 62 (Winter 2006), pp. 4-19 (16 pages) The influx of European influences in this period is detailed in Robert K. Wright, Jr., The Continental Army, Army Lineage Series (Washington, ...

5,000 black men served in the Continental Army, and hundreds more served on ... sought to disrupt the American cause by promising freedom to any slaves owned by Patriot masters who would join ...

In 1776, as George Washington was leading the Continental Army through some of the earliest battles of the American Revolution, disease posed a greater threat to his forces than British troops.

Barracks believed built by the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War between ... they could see the barracks on fire in the distance … For us as archaeologists, this is a burning event ...

American defeats were frequent. The army staged an ill-fated attack on Quebec, which provided the British a good base from which to invade New York and New England. As the Second Continental ...