The musket fire that rang out and broke the tension at Lexington on April 19, 1775, became the "shot heard round the world" and kicked off a revolution — The American Revolution. The famous war saw 13 ...

America's first submarine dates to the Revolutionary War. Built by a Connecticut inventor, it sailed into New York Harbor in 1776 with a mission to blow up a British warship. It was ahead of its time ...

Ever since David Bushnell invented the first underwater warship (the Turtle, which tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up the British frigate Eagle in New York harbor in 1776), naval men have dreamed of a ...

David Bushnell built a submarine in 1776 and attempted to use it to sink the British flagship HMS Eagle. More than two centuries later students at Old Saybrook High School created a working replica of ...

I guess you could say that my wife comes from something of a naval family. She was born in a naval hospital in Florida, her father served in the US Navy during the Vietnam War and, following in his ...