The Great American History Blog

  Regular United States Infantry during the Revolutionary War were known as “Continentals” or the “Continental Line.” Massachusetts and Vi...

  The first widely distributed artistic rendition of the Battle of the Little Bighorn was called “ The Battle on the Little Big Horn River: ...

  In 1775 Great Britain depended on the Royal Navy to maintain trade and project British power.   Throughout the war the British could strik...

  After betraying his country,  Benedict Arnold accepted a commission in the British army.  After the war Benedict Arnold was not celebrated...

   Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton who led the fearsome Loyalist British Legion returned to England in triumph at the end of the Americ...

  Despite his defeat at Yorktown, Lord Charles Cornwallis was cheered when he landed in England on January 21, 1782.   He retained the confi...

    Peter Francisco (1760-1831) who was six feet eight inches tall, and weighed some 260 pounds has come down to history with the title the ...

  George Armstrong Custer’s widow, Elizabeth “Libbie” Custer died on April 4, 1933.   She had defended her husband’s reputation for over fif...

   The National Archives  On October 17, 2024, a rare privately owned copy of the U.S. Constitution was sold at auction by Brunks Auctions o...

  Gregory Maguire 's 1995 novel  Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West creates a  backstory  for Elphaba, the futu...

  Major General William Elphinstone is considered by some military historians to be “the most incompetent soldier who ever became a general”...

Shortly before his murder in 1890, Sitting Bull said to his biographer: “When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world.   The sun rose and set...

                                                      Washington                            Custer James Barroll Washington was born in Balt...

  “I went over the battlefield carefully with a view to determine how the fight was fought.  I arrived at the conclusion I have right now-th...

  “The battalion organization was made after we had marched about four hours.  I think at the first halt an orderly came to me with instruct...

  On June 25, 1876, at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, five companies of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry, under the direct command of George A...

  In the early days of the American Civil War, George Armstrong Custer wore his hair long, and wore a braided black velvet jacket and a flam...

  On June 25, 1876, at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, five companies of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry, under the direct command of George Arm...