David Preston

David Preston, a historian who teaches at The Citadel, is the author of the award-winning Braddock’s Defeat.

By regulation, British officers wore a red coat. Washington later outfitted his troops in blue regimental coats faced with scarlet.

When Young George Washington Started a War

A just-discovered eyewitness account provides startling new evidence about who fired the shot that sparked the French and Indian War

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