As I sat at my desk last weekend, significant events of Aprils past came to mind. “On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five,” Longfellow wrote, “Hardly a man is now alive/ Who remembers that famous ...

The Redcoats were routed that day. Six years later Washington accepted the final British surrender at Yorktown. The Treaty of Paris in 1783 established the new nation as “the first constitutional ...

If there’s one thing that Howard County softball teams have learned this season, it’s that nobody is safe. There will be no ...

As a nascent fighting force, the Continental Army was underestimated for the entirety of the American Revolutionary War. Just ...

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The USS Yorktown retrieved two Enterprise aircraft that were damaged in an attack on the Japanese carrier Kaga, according to ...

Three miles down, cameras glimpsed the shattered interior of the USS Yorktown, sunk in the Pacific Ocean in the 1942 Battle ...

A mysterious military vehicle located three miles underwater aboard the shipwrecked World War II-era USS Yorktown wasn’t the only shocking discovery made by researchers over the weekend.