John ward dunsmore biography of michaels
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The Battle of Brandywine Creek, September 11 1777
Editor: Michael Spilling and Consultant Editor: Chris McNab
American Battles and Campaigns – The Battle of Brandywine Creek, September 11 1777
With the help of the newly arrived Marquis de Lafayette, Washington and the Continental Army ventured open battle to prevent Gen William Howe’s thrust up from the Chesapeake to seize the American capital of Philadelphia at the Battle of Brandywine Creek. British forces numbered 13,000 men against Washington’s 15,000, making this action the largest battle on the North American continent before the American Civil War. American light infantry shadowed the British Army’s approach to Washington’s line across Chad’s Ford through the namesake creek.
Finding the Americans prepared to receive him, Howe dispatched light units and received intelligence from the local loyalists about the American positions. Howe decided upon a holding attack, with 5000 men under Gen Wilhelm von Knyphausen attacking at Chad’s Ford, while Gen Charles Cornwallis took 8000 troops around Washington’s right flank. The British forced the crossing, while Washington received a growing trickle of reports
about a second British force to the north.
Washington sent troops to reinforce his right and ordered a defe
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Join National Park Service Rangers and costumed re-enactors depicting 18th-century women from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on March 27.
Discover what day-to-day life as well as war was like for women in New York during the Colonial and Revolutionary period through talks such as:
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