July 1: Cherokee attack the southern frontier. July 4: Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence. It’s worth noting that two other branches of the military will turn 250 this year as well. The ...

Leaders of South Carolina's early Continental Regiments, including William Moultrie and Francis Marion, sacrificed much in ...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, June 5, 2014) -- When the American Revolutionary War broke out in 1775, the original ... and the units later became the 1st Continental Regiment.

on the morning of April 19, 1775. Now that the fighting had begun, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress looked to the Continental ... the 1st American Regiment for national service.

Mayer (Emerita, Duquesne) takes on the unique story of the Continental Army’s “2 nd Canadian Regiment”. The regiment was raised largely from Canadian volunteers following the failure of the Patriots’ ...

These companies formed the 1st Continental Regiment and augmented the roughly 27,000 citizen soldiers serving with state militias during the American Revolutionary War. Within days of establishing ...