revolutionary war

Robert Anderson, son of a Revolutionary War officer, a cousin of Chief Justice John Marshall, and a West Point graduate from the loyal slave state of Kentucky.

It’s a very close-to-the-bone feeling of political desperation in the midst of a revolutionary war, to say we’re gonna write down what our rights are.

“Hamilton” tells the story of the Founding Father, beginning before the Revolutionary War and ending with his untimely death at the hands of Jefferson’s vice president, Burr, during an early-morning duel in New Jersey.

Poor and deeply ambitious, he rose to become a military officer in the Revolutionary War, and later, the nation’s first secretary of the treasury under Washington.

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president, all the historic sites, like the Civil War and Revolutionary War battlefields, were under the management of the War Department.