Gideon Olmsted, a Connecticut sea captain, departed Hartford and put to sea in December 1777 with a cargo of horses, onions, tobacco,...
Noah Webster was an odd duck, a famously fussy lexicographer who not only Americanized the English language but created the idea of...
The Indian trails that crisscrossed New England go back to prehistoric times. Native Americans migrated from summer to winter homes along the...
In the fall of 1776, a scrappy little patriot navy stymied an invasion by overwhelming British military forces during the Battle of...
Scattered throughout New England are dozens of revolutionary forts. Some, like Fort Halifax in Maine, date to the French and Indian wars....
The Penobscot Expedition during the American Revolution was the worst naval disaster in American history until Pearl Harbor. That a huge force...