Albigence Waldo: Diary, December 11-29, 1777: People who live at home in Luxury and Ease, quietly possessing their habitations, Enjoying...

Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, Number 1 These are the times that try men’s souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will,...

Ambrose Serle: Journal, July 12-23, 1776: The Congress have at length thought it convenient to throw off the Mask. Their Declaration of...

John Adams to Abigail Adams: But the Day is past. The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epoch, in the History of...

Abigail Adams to John Adams: I was struck with General Washington. You had prepaired me to entertain a favorable opinion of him, but I...

John Adams to Abigail Adams: We have appointed a continental Fast. Millions will be upon their Knees at once before their great Creator,...

John Adams to Abigail Adams: "But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under...

George Washington: Address to the Continental Congress, June 16, 1775: “Mr. President, Tho’ I am truly sensible of the high Honour done...

John Dickinson to Arthur Lee: We are a united, resolved people; are, or quickly shall be, well armed and disciplined; our smith’s and...

It is also reported that Xerxes had left his tent to Mardonios when he fled from Hellas, and that when Pausanias saw these quarters of...

After Artabazos had taken Olynthos, he ambitiously turned his thoughts to Poteidaia, and as he did, he found that Timoxeinos, the general...

For the Andrians were the first of the islanders from whom Themistokles had demanded money and who had refused to pay him. Themistokles...

Now a few deserters from Arcadia had come to them who needed to make a living and wanted employment. The Persians led them into the...

To that, Demaratos replied, “The Lacedaemonians are in fact no worse than any other men when they fight individually, but when they unite...

Come now, tell me truly.” Artabanos answered him, “Sire, may the vision that appeared in that dream be fulfilled in accordance with what...

As he looked out over the whole Hellespont, whose water was completely hidden by all his ships, and at all the shores and the plains of...

Xerxes was attempting to cross the Hellespont with his army: It was from Abydos to this promontory, then, that the bridges were built by...

They had with them Onomakritos, an Athenian oraclemonger and a compiler of the oracles of Mousaios, with whom they had earlier reconciled...

In Greek the names of the kings mean the following: Darius means “Achiever,” Xerxes “Warlike,” and “Artaxerxes “Extremely Warlike.” These...

According to the Argives, then, that is why Kleomenes went mad and died an evil death. The Spartans, however, say that Kleomenes became...

It was Kleomenes who had come up with the idea to refer this question to the Pythia, and he next gained the support of Kobon son of...

After wintering in the vicinity of Miletus, the Persian fleet sailed off the next year and with little effort took control of the islands...

That is the account told by the Argives and Aeginetans, and they agree with the Athenians that only one Athenian returned home to Attica...

He also appointed Otanes to command the forces stationed along the coast. The father of this Otanes was Sisamnes, one of the royal...