Deborah Sampson was the first woman to ever enlist in the United States military. She did it by pretending to be a man.

This year, the U.S. Army Infantry Branch celebrates 250 years since its creation by the 2nd Continental Congress ... to act as skirmishers and light infantry to scout and screen in front of ...

On April 19, 1775, 250 years ago, approximately 80 armed militiamen from Lexington gathered on their village green to ...

Gen. George Patton gave the Thunderbirds high praise, saying "the 45th Infantry Division is one of the best, if not the best.

When British troops went to seize arms stockpiled by American colonists at Concord, Massachusetts, they could have had little ...

The Westfield Historical Society has received an FY 2025 Project Grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission to conduct research on a Revolutionary War trail. The research project, dubbed ...

The research focuses on the people who inhabited Westfield at the time, structures which existed and the roads that were traversed by Continental Army General Benjamin Lincoln’s Left Column.

Those skills that would eventually help her enlist in George Washington's Continental Army ... she was drafted into the light infantry, an elite unit known for being more mobile and agile than ...

The battles, which emerged from a gathering revolutionary crisis, predicted the outcome of the war: the victory of the ...

Nonpartisanship is a crucial element of the U.S. military’s professional ethic. Officers are appointed and promoted based on ...

She was assigned to a light infantry company and initially worked ... During the 17 months she served in the Continental Army, she was wounded in combat at least once, according to Bowersox.