In the earliest days of the American republic, the United States military was as disorganized as the rest of the American government under the Articles of Confederation. When that document…
To become an officer in the Revolutionary War you needed to have brass…courage. The initial fervor against England drove men to enlist in droves to fight against tyranny. The British…
Ask any American to list the rights enshrined by the United States Constitution and they’ll be awfully quick to tell you the first two. Hell, take a drive on any freeway in America and you’ll see a couple of bumper stickers supporting the right to…
A colonist war you never heard of completely impacted the presence of Europeans on the continent during the early days of America. Don’t mess with a Harvard grad King Philip…
In 1775, the Royal Navy sent a fleet to Falmouth, Maine, the site of modern-day Portland, and rained heated shells down on it for eight hours, burning nearly the entire town to the ground — but also pouring tinder onto the burgeoning flames of Ame…