The six French officers who have ... of the University are the first officers of any foreign nation who have been sent to this country to drill American troops in time of war since the days ...

The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be ...

In Military Loyalists of the American Revolution Prof. Dornfest (emeritus, CUNY Staten I) gives us a detailed work that is both biographical dictionary of literally thousands of officers who served in ...

A 1781 French engraving of Capt. John Paul Jones, American naval hero of the Revolutionary War. (AP) Oct. 18 at 6:17 a.m. American officers have parlayed their military experience into financial ...