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For years the colonies had flourished in a state of “salutary neglect.” Britain had been content to leave the day-to-day ...

Washington reviewing the troops As commander in chief, George Washington reviewed the western army at Fort Cumberland, ...

On September 17, Lee met General McClellan in the bloodiest single day of fighting in the war and in American history. Union ...

In the opening struggles for control of Europe, the United States used economic aid to support the democracies of Western ...

After the Civil War, thousands of Americans poured into the Great Plains on a collision course with western Indian tribes.

In March 1945, U.S. Army Air Forces intensified their strategic bombing campaign over Japan. Instead of flying high-altitude ...

Coveting what remained of the Indian lands in the Southeast and lower South, the United States forced tribes to cede their ...

The following month, British forces attacked Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor. After twenty-five hours of bombarding the fort ...

The soldiers were young and inexperienced, most in their teens or early twenties. In the North, they were farmers and factory ...

At Cold Harbor, Grant launched a furious assault against what he thought was a tired and beaten enemy—and suffered a bloody ...

A triumphant general in Washington’s position might have tried to seize power, but Washington, like other Americans, saw ...