George Washington had a problem he believed no one had ever encountered before. On January 1, 1776, the Continental Army would disappear...
George Washington learned about Benedict Arnold’s treason while staying at Benedict Arnold’s house near West Point. He wondered why Arnold, his best...
A 13-year-old son of a French baron named Jean-Vincent d’Abaddie de Saint-Castin arrives in Maine in 1665 to quell the Iroquois and...
Capt. John Hull made frequent trips between America and England as early as the 1680s. He ran a profitable line of ships...
The privateers that raided shipping off the New England coast in the War of 1812 were the gladiators of their day. Wealth,...
The Penobscot Expedition during the American Revolution was the worst naval disaster in American history until Pearl Harbor. That a huge force...