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The Whitemarsh Affair is protected by Upper and Middle Grades U.S. copyright law. It is unlawful to use this play in any way unless you are a current subscriber to [...]

Casimir Putaski was born in Warsaw on 4 March 1745 and grew up steeped in Poland's cavalry tradition. The Commonwealth was struggling to maintain its independence against the influence of [...]

MONUMENTS AND MEN Herman Melville is best known today for evoking a far different sort of warrior, in his whaling epic Moby-Dick. But in 1854, three years after the publication [...]

Marquis de Lafayette French, 6 September 1757 - 20 May 1834 Inspired by the American revolutionaries, the wealthy Marquis de Lafayette left France before he turned 20 years old, against [...]

Characters LILY MOTHER Scenes with Unsung Heroines Mary Draper MARY DRAPER, widow KATE DRAPER, daughter MOLLY, servant DAVID, son Lydia Darragh LYDIA DARRAGH GENERAL HOWE, British officer MAJOR JOHN ANDRE, [...]

FEATURES / WHAT IF… THE CONTINENTAL ARMY HAD NOT ESCAPED AFTER THE BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND? Nige Tassell and Professor Benjamin Carp consider the fate of the American colonies had [...]

This commentary responds to the article by Buddhika B. Jayamaha and Jahara Matisek entitled 'Social Media Warriors: Leveraging a New Battlespace' published in the Winter 2018-19 issue of Parameters (vol. [...]

Institutional training provides leaders a baseline Soldier. It's up to the organizational leaders of today's Army to ensure that they continue to develop and sharpen knowledge, skills, and attributes to [...]

An epidemic ripped through the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Caleb Haskell lived to write about it. In September 1775, less than five months after the opening battles of [...]

The conflict that rent the United States 1861-65 was not America's first civil war--the American Revolution was. The fight for independence pitted neighbor against neighbor and family member against family [...]

During the bloody war for our nation's independence, one teen made a courageous ride to protect her family and community. Like many ordinary Americans, she risked her life for the [...]

YOUR ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR / KEY FIGURES OF THE WAR ROYALS, RADICALS AND REVOLUTIONARIES From the founding fathers to the British general whose surrender brought the [...]

YOUR ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR / KEY FACTS AND FIGURES REVOLUTIONARY WARFARE How many people died? What did soldiers wear on the battlefield? We look at the [...]

YOUR ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR / KEY BATTLES THE BATTLES THAT MADE THE UNITED STATES From the first shots at Lexington and Concord, to the surrender at [...]

EVERY MONTH / SPOTLIGHT ON... THE LIVES OF HISTORY’S MOST FAMOUS FIGURES George Washington: the father of a nation The Virginian commanded the Continental Army that won America independence from [...]

BARON VON STEUBEN was a Prussian military officer who arrived in America during the darkest hour of the Revolutionary War to train George Washington's bedraggled troops at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. [...]

THERE ARE MANY myths about the American Revolutionary War. One you may have heard is that a woman named Molly Pitcher was the only woman to have fought alongside men [...]

The Boston Campaign of the Revolutionary War is the inspiration for a new book on leadership by retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. William Rapp. In Accomplishing the Impossible: The Leadership [...]

Pfc. Florence Shmorgoner woke up one afternoon in 2015 and realized that she was in someone else's bed in someone else's room. Something was wrong. The 19-year-old had been playing [...]

NCOs are responsible for individual training. Officers have entrusted NCOs to accomplish this mission. During the period of the Continental Army, Inspector General Friedrich von Steuben standardized NCO duties and [...]

With their 2018 book Valley Forge best-selling authors Bob Drury and Tom Clavin turn their attention to one of the most underappreciated chapters in American history --the Continental Army's 1777-78 [...]

'The Battle of Lexington,' Amos Doolittle, 1775, based on Doolittle's interviews with town residents and militiamen. The American War of Independence broke out on this day (April 19) in 1775, [...]

'As the principal attention in Poland had been for some time past paid to the cavalry,' George Washington dryly noted in a letter to the Continental Congress on August 18, [...]

In February 1780 Lieutenant General Wilhelm von Knyphausen, the interim commander in chief of British forces in the New York area, and Captain George Beckwith, London's spymaster in the American [...]

Byline: Colin Nash A common refrain heard from the chorus of folks who view public health measures as an affront to their rights is, 'What would the founders think?' While [...]

The path to citizenship for those who put on uniform has narrowed WHEN Baron Friedrich von Steuben, a Prussian officer helping the Continental Army, asked for a translator at Valley [...]