George Washington, who had been leading the battle ... the historian Richard Van Wyck Buel Jr. wrote on the ConnecticutHistory.org website. But it was only lightly defended, and the British ...

In the Trustees’ Room of the Boston Athenaeum, around 230 books once belonging to President George Washington rest in a glass and wooden bookcase. Among the volumes: Masonic sermons, agricultural ...

In 1787, General George Washington presided over the Constitutional Convention with sphinx-like inscrutability. He betrayed not a flicker of emotion as the architects of a new nation wrangled ...