The American Revolution was a defining moment in history ... To safeguard this strategic location, the French constructed Fort Duquesne, a military symbol denoting their colonial intentions.

the commander of the French forces at Yorktown. NMAH, on loan from the collection of Nicholas Taubman In a global context, the American Revolution was largely a war about trade and economic ...

DuVal explains. “France’s help for the United States has long been part of Americans’ knowledge of the American Revolution, but the French king decided to enter the war because of France’s ...

Updated December 23, 2013, 7:24 PM France and the United States have been feeding off of one another since the French Revolution, and the French woman has been an icon ever since Joan of Arc ...

Betsy sews stars, Johnny plants trees, Lafayette brings French élan to the American Revolution. He is, in the collective imagination, little more than a wooden soldier with a white plume on his ...

Painted in 1772, it shows a younger man, dressed in the blue and red uniform of a provincial officer — which he had been, loyally serving the king of England, during the French and Indian War.