George Washington Appointed to Command the Continental Army
The Continental Congress creates the Continental Army and then asks George Washington to serve as its commander-in-chief. He accepts the next day and immediately leaves for Boston, arriving on July 2.
See the events in Williamsburg and other cities that created a revolutionary movement.
Follow the ways that religion informed revolutionary thought.
From clothing to theater, trace the impact of taste on empire and revolution.
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