Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army and the first President of the United States of America,” Sarno said in his proclamation naming Saturday as “George Washington Day” in Springfield.

On Jan. 24, 1776, Henry Knox, a bold, portly bookseller and former Bostonian, solved the first problem. Having seized Fort Ticonderoga, in upstate New York, he and his men dragged the garrison’s ...

On April 26, 1777, during the Revolutionary War, a large British raiding party attacked the American supply depot at Danbury, Connecticut, burning houses and barns and destroying stores of shoes, ...

Before George Washington resigned from his post as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, he wrote a letter to all the governors (it was intended for the entire American community as well).

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George Washington was the first president of the ... As a soldier, he served as commander in chief of the Continental Army, the somewhat ragtag collection of citizen-soldiers who banded together ...

This year’s theme, George Washington: America’s Commander-in-Chief, commemorates the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War and the founding of the United States Army. Lieutenant General ...