A new set of stamps honors five pivotal American Revolution battlefields across the Northeast as the US prepares for its ...

The Continental Army had lost battle after battle of ... Washington decided to attack the mercenary Hessian troops, the most feared troops in Europe, at Trenton on Christmas Day.

This surprise attack resulted in a crucial victory over Hessian mercenaries at the Battle of Trenton, reinvigorating the army and shifting momentum in the war. Though issues of discipline and ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with author Rick Atkinson in Lexington, Mass., about the first book of his forthcoming trilogy about the American Revolution, "The British are Coming." ...

Just as Soldiers’ enlistments approached their end, Washington ordered the Army to cross the ice-choked Delaware River in the dark to capture a Hessian detachment at Trenton. Returning across ...

ogether with the U.S. National Park Service, the U.S. Postal Service held a ceremony at Minute Man National Historical Park ...

Now the British had abandoned their occupation of the revolutionaries’ capital, and Washington, needing something for Arnold to do while he recuperated from a battle ... Trenton at a home in ...