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I f you’ve explored the hallowed grounds of Valley Forge National Historical Park and are eager to delve deeper into the Revolutionary War’s rich history, the suburban Philadelphia area offers ...
Descendants of Dr. Bodo Otto, a Revolutionary War surgeon at Valley Forge, gather Saturday at his gravesite in the churchyard at Trinity Lutheran Church, Sixth and Washington streets.
When she’s not working weekends, my wife attends monthly meetings of the DAR, the Daughters of the American Revolution. She’s into genealogy, has found that her ancestors have been in ...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump read most of his Independence Day speech from a prepared text, but stumbled on his history at one point: He talked about airports during the American ...
That’s the word to describe Valley Forge, located 24 miles northwest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the Schuylkill River, and famous in American Revolutionary War history as the quarters of ...
The FBI’s Philadelphia office announced that a musket stolen in the 1960s from Valley Forge ... As the United States celebrates its independence on July 4, a piece of Revolutionary War history ...
Foreign military officers referred to the American military as “speckled,” owing to the diverse racial makeup of its troops.
An antique gun from the Revolutionary War stolen over 50 years ago has been recovered and turned over to the Museum of the American Revolution. A .78 caliber, smooth-bore musket made in the 1770s had ...
The artifact was among several Revolutionary War-era items taken during a string of thefts that occurred in the 1960s and 1970s in the area of Valley Forge Park.