South Carolina originally sent five delegates to the Second Continental Congress but only one, Edward Rutledge, remained to ...

On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, proclaiming U.S. independence from Britain ...

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Meet the five New Jerseyans who signed the Declaration of Independence: Abraham Clark had served in the Continental Congress ...

So Parliament took a new approach. It passed laws—the Sugar Act and Stamp Act— to raise revenue directly, bypassing the ...

We fight, get beat, rise and fight again.” ...

In 1775, an unsung hero of the Revolutionary War, Western Pennsylvania's Colonel William Thompson, helped drive back the ...

The nation’s capital resided in Pennsylvania before Washington, D.C. However, just where in the state depends on the criteria ...

The first U.S. flag, as adopted by Congress, features 13 alternating red and white stripes along with 13 stars positioned in ...

Being a Virginian made Washington a symbol of the Continental Congress’s effort to show that beleaguered Boston was not alone ...