In the first engagement of the French and Indian War, a Virginia militia under 22-year-old Lieutenant Colonel George ...
Young George Washington came to Waterford, Pa., in 1753 to urge the French to abandon their frontier fort. The French stayed, ...
The American Revolution was a defining moment in the history of Pennsylvania. Neighbor turned against neighbor amidst a desperate civil war in colonial America. Indigenous societies were uprooted from ...
As a young officer in the French and Indian War, Washington was involved in a devastating friendly fire incident. Military veterans are helping archaeologists excavate the location. By Jennifer ...
Erie County executive Christina Vogel discusses how Erie County has played a role in American history from the French and Indian War to the industrial inventions.
The precepts of the Magna Carta were included in Elizabeth I’s 1578 grant to Sir Humphrey Gilbert and later charters included a key provision: all rights of Englishmen were retained by English ...
In early 1777, British General John Burgoyne hatched a plan to take over New York’s Hudson River Valley and end the American Revolution by cutting off the colonists’ maritime supply routes. Fort ...