We mentioned a while back that John Adams had siblings, as did George Washington. This wasnt one of them, and as far as anyone can tell, its more of a cousin-type relationship. William Washington es

As the winter of 1775 approached, George Washington had to think about the state of the siege of Boston. In short, housing and clothing thousands of men in a New England winter is a very different pro

The riflemen in the Continental Army were a special breed of soldier. They werent subject to all the drudge work that most of the other soldiers had to endure. The downside to this is, they knew it a

The Independence Hurricane from September 2 is still going strong, and on this day it made landfall again, this time in Newfoundland, Canada. The devastation was immense, and perhaps would have been w

As late as the 1970s, pioneers like Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone had achieved a kind of mythical status, largely because of fictionalized stories created about them by the folks at Disney. Sometimes

The Turtle, or the American Turtle as its often called, was invented by a man who thought it should be possible to stealthily attach a bomb to a ship and then detonate it shortly thereafter, by appro

The Second Continental Congress tried appealing to the Canadian leadership in order to get support for the Independence cause, but they apparently werent biting. So George Washington tried a differen

American forces began to move on Fort St. Jean in Canada. Unfortunately they ran into a couple of unexpected obstacles on the way, so they had to adjust their approach. This led to a six-week siege of

An invasion of Canada seems a little absurd on its face, but when you think about it in the context of the Revolution, it actually starts to make sense. After all, Canada was also a few British coloni

Anyone whos been to Boston in the modern day has a hard time recognizing that the city of Boston was just the segment in the top center of the map. The area called Boston Neck is clearly marked at th