Making of America
On this day in 1775, British troops march out of Boston on a mission to confiscate the American arsenal at Concord and to capture Patriot...
Making of America
About 2 a.m. on the morning of April 17, 1783, British Captain James Colbert, along with a group of 82 British partisans, launches a...
Making of America
On this day in 1738, Henry Clinton, the future commander in chief of British forces charged with suppressing the rebellion in North...
Making of America
On this day in 1783, the Continental Congress of the United States officially ratifies the preliminary peace treaty with Great Britain...
Making of America
The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, the first American society dedicated to the cause of abolition, is...
Making of America
In the early morning hours of April 13, 1777, General Lord Charles Cornwallis leads 4,000 British troops and Hessian mercenaries in a...
Making of America
On this fateful day in 1770, the British government moves to mollify outraged colonists by repealing most of the clauses of the hated...
Making of America
On this day in 1778, Jeremiah Wadsworth is named commissary general of purchases for the Continental Army at the insistence of General...
Making of America
Future United States President John Adams arrives in Paris, France, on this day in 1778 to replace former Continental Congress member...
Making of America
On this day in 1776, Navy Captain John Barry, commander of the American warship Lexington, makes the first American naval capture of a...
