“Defend the bridge to the last extremity!” Washington shouted to his officers and men 245 years ago as he stared at the massive British army coiling in front of the stone arched bridge that stood between his men and their destruction.
The Marine lieutenant colonel who demanded accountability from senior military leaders for the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan has announced that he has been officially discharged from the Marine Corps and is planning to go on a media blitz.
“Our republic cannot exist long in prosperity,” Doctor Benjamin Rush later wrote in a letter to John Adams. “We require adversity and appear to possess most of the republican spirit when most depressed.”
Two hundred and forty-five years ago, in a forgotten battle that saved Washington’s Army, a handful of American soldiers accomplished a feat exceptionally rare in history. They successfully prevented an amphibious landing by thousands of British soldiers.
Representative Mo Brooks (R-AL) argues President Joe Biden did not learn from history in the execution of his administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, which in a relatively short amount of time has fallen under the control of the Taliban after nearly 20 years of U.S. military occupation.
General George Washington, was guarded by an elite unit of trusted soldiers, known as his Life Guard, who protected the commander in chief as well as performed special missions and engaged in battle.
The spark that ignited the Revolutionary War in 1775 had a long fuse that British General Thomas Gage unintentionally lit when he first seized colonial gunpowder and artillery in 1774.
The true story of America’s founding and the incredible sacrifice of those who signed the Declaration of Independence and the Americans who made its iconic words a reality is epic.
A Son of Liberty and close friend of Patriots like Samuel Adams and Doctor Joseph Warren, the doctor made great pains to disguise his true loyalties to the British Crown.
He furtively lowered the fort’s flag, which proclaimed “Don’t Tread on Me,” and passed the colors to another soldier rather than hand them over to the enemy.
Washington and Lee University’s (W&L) Board of Trustees voted in a 22-6 decision to keep the school’s Robert E. Lee namesake, but also promised to “expand diversity and inclusion initiatives and make changes to campus buildings, practices, and governance.”
Challenging the British Royal Navy by transforming a fishing schooner into a man of war seemed as preposterous then as it does now. But British disarmament and a lack of crucial gunpowder in the colonies led to American innovation.
Doctor Bond had a problem. During the Battle of Lexington and Concord in obedience to his Hippocratic Oath, he had treated British soldiers. For performing his duty as a doctor, he was falsely accused of being a Loyalist and had his life threatened by an angry mob.
Over 246 years ago, an invisible enemy descended on the town of Marblehead, Massachusetts. A virus divided the town politically and had a profound impact on the Revolutionary War that followed shortly after.
Two hundred and forty-five years ago, the fate of Washington’s army—in fact, the fate of the entire Revolution—lay on the muscled shoulders of the fishermen and sailors of the Marblehead Regiment.
On the Ides of March 240 years ago in the muddy fields and woods outside Guilford Courthouse, North Carolina, the course of the Revolutionary War changed in an epic battle. In the heart of the melee, a six-foot-six, 260-pound giant armed with a massive broadsword battled for freedom.
Students at the University of Washington (UW) are demanding that the school remove a statue of George Washington, claiming that its existence “perpetuates white supremacy.” Washington, the first U.S. president, is the namesake of both the university and the state it is located in.
The Christian Post asserts Saturday that the second impeachment of Donald Trump is a “hyper-partisan” affair driven by Nancy Pelosi’s personal animus toward the former president.
The San Francisco Board of Education voted to rename 44 of the city’s schools, claiming that prominent figures from American history, such as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Paul Revere, were tied to racist incidents. The committee based their decisions on Wikipedia and other wildly inaccurate information to source its claims.
The San Francisco school board has voted to remove names of dozens of schools that some people have deemed to be offensive.
San Francisco schools will be stripped of names honoring famous American leaders, including Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
A statue of Abraham Lincoln was defaced over the weekend at San Francisco’s City Hall, the latest assault on the 16th president, who is also known as the Great Emancipator for his role in leading the Civil War and ultimately abolishing slavery.
As I wrote in the new Judicial Watch book A Republic Under Assault, Christmas 2020 finds the foundations of our republic under attack.
Each year I like to remind our supporters to recall what life was like for the Pilgrims who arrived on these shores in December of 1620.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) may be the next target of the “Cancel Culture” crowd as an advisory group seeks to rename a San Francisco school bearing her name.
Trump recalled those “harrowing days” of the war, saying that “the American Revolution seemed lost.”
The San Francisco Unified School District announced the names of 44 school names could be changed because of alleged links to racism and “colonization,” including those named after presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) namesake is also on the list.
Civil rights leader Bob Woodson said Tuesday that D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s consideration of removing iconic American monuments and symbols is dangerous and can lead to “dark places,” as a similar approach did during the French Revolution.
Two hundred and forty-four years ago this week, “Gentleman of Honour, Family, and Fortune” made a Thermopylae-like stand that saved Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn.Two hundred and forty-four years ago this week, “Gentleman of Honour, Family, and Fortune” made a Thermopylae-like stand that saved Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn. Their attack that earned them the nickname “The Bayonets of The Revolution” may have also saved the month-old United States.
Rioters tore down a statue of George Washington near Los Angeles City Hall on Thursday evening, the latest monument to fall in the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests around the country.
The faculty of Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, voted on Monday to remove the name of Robert E. Lee from the university’s name. During a faculty meeting on Monday, 79 percent of faculty voted in favor of a change to the university’s name.
During an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) defended statues and monuments for George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and distinguished them from Confederate statues and monuments by pointing
Two statues depicting George Washington, the United States’ first president, were defaced early Monday morning in New York City’s Washington Square Park.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) on Tuesday promised to defend Mount Rushmore from radical leftists, who have been demanding the removal of several historic monuments and statues across the nation and, in some cases, lawlessly destroying the structures themselves.
“Largely it’s state damage because the states have been very weak, extremely weak in protecting their heritage and protecting their culture,” Trump said.
President Trump said individuals who burn the American flag should have to spend a year in prison during a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
A statue of George Washington, the first president of the United States, was toppled and draped in a burning American flag by protesters in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday evening.
Two elementary schools named after George Washington and Thomas Jefferson in Berkeley, California, announced this week that they will change their names to comply with increasing demands for political correctness. The Berkeley Unified School District also announced a “Black Joy Campaign” to bring “racial equity” training to students and teachers.
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the American Revolution was reported desecrated on Friday, as attacks on monuments continued nationwide in association with Black Lives Matter protests.
The first president of the United States, George Washington, has joined the likes of Sir Winston Churchill and Mahatma Gandhi among historic figures that have had their statues covered up in London over fears of vandalism by Black Lives Matter activists.
