SALISBURY — Shots rang out at the Old Stone House as troops under the command of Gen. Nathanael Greene furiously fended off an attack from British soldiers fighting for Lord Charles Cornwallis. When ...
Historians are working to preserve the site of what’s considered the last major Revolutionary War battle in the South.
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Richard Brookhiser talked about Revolutionary War era painter John Trumbull's painting "Surrender of Lord Cornwallis." The American Revolution ...
A special history talk is scheduled for 7 p.m. Sept. 15 at the Thomas Crane Public Library in Quincy Center, where author and historian Jeffrey A. Denman will explore a pivotal campaign of the ...
The shade of Charles, Marquis Cornwallis, will revisit the scenes of his American campaigns from New York to the Carolinas in a one-night appearance at St. Paul’s Church, Summerville, on the evening ...
On this day in 1781, General George Washington led 17,000 French and American troops in the siege known as the Battle of ...
Sizer, Theodore, "The works of Colonel John Trumbull, artist of the American Revolution," Rev. ed., New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967. https://siris ...