In 2017, battle flags taken into combat ... but there were also four flags from the Spanish-American War and two rare flags from the Revolutionary War. In 1917, display of the flags in the State ...

By the outbreak of the American Revolution, the militia had thrown in its lot with the Continental Congress and would go on to fight in several Revolutionary War battles. Re-enactors like Mantle ...

Adams knew the American ... war would be long — John Adams had predicted it might span 10 years — and the outcome never assured. On June 17, the Americans experienced their first major ...