Making of America
On this day in 1777, a 19-year-old French aristocrat, Marie-Joseph Paul Roch Yves Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, accepts a...
Making of America
Colonel Paul Dudley Sargent with the 16th Continental Regiment and Colonel Israel Hutchinson with his 27th Continental Regiment, both...
Making of America
On this day in 1776, the secret Congressional emissary to France, Silas Deane, writes a letter to Congress, informing them that he has...
Making of America
On this day in 1775, the U.S. postal system is established by the Second Continental Congress, with Benjamin Franklin as its first...
Making of America
On this day in 1793, Roger Sherman, a Connecticut Patriot and member of the Committee of Five selected to draft the Declaration of...
Making of America
On this day in 1779, Mohawk Indian Chief Joseph Brant leads a mixed force of Loyalists and Indians in surrounding a force of 120 colonial...
Making of America
On this day in 1775, Patriot minutemen in whaleboats, commanded by Major Joseph Vose, raid Nantasket Point, also known as Little Brewster...
Making of America
On this day in 1779, Massachusetts, without consulting either Continental political or military authorities, launches a 4,000-man naval...
Making of America
On this day in 1792, the Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones dies in his Paris apartment, where he was still awaiting a...
Making of America
On this day in 1776, the Continental Congress learns of General George Washington’s refusal to accept a dispatch from British General...
