After the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, the Massachusetts militia organized into longer-serving ...

The fort did not last long under American control. On November 16, 1776, the British under Sir William Howe captured the fort, with the help of one of the first American traitors in the war ...

A TABLET to the memory of Margaret Corbin, a heroine of the battle of Fort Washington on Nov. 16, 1776, is to be unnveiled ... Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.