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, ...

In 1787, General George Washington presided over the Constitutional Convention with sphinx-like inscrutability. He betrayed not a flicker of emotion as the architects of a new nation wrangled ...

The letter highlights Washington's belief that British attacks would be met with strong American resistance. A May 1777 letter from George Washington ... addressed the Battle of Danbury, where ...