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4 days ago · November 25, 1777 at Gloucester, New Jersey - On November 25, Brig. Gen. Marquis de Lafayette led a reconnaissance force of 300 Continentals regulars against Gen. Charles Cornwallis' command at the town of Gloucester. Lafayette's outnumbered troops skirmished with a force of Hessiens.
- Revolutionary War Raids & Skirmishes in 1776
AUGUST OF 1776. August 1, 1776 at Senecca, South Carolina -...
- Battle of Fort Mercer
The Revolutionary War Battle of Fort Mercer, October 22,...
- The Battle of White Marsh
The Revolutionary War Battle of White Marsh, December 5 ,...
- Brig. Gen. Philip Schuyler
The controversy was taken into Congress. The necessary...
- Sir Henry Clinton
Also present at the battle was Charles Cornwallis and...
- Brig. Gen. John Sullivan's
In the battle of Brandywine on September 11, 1777, he again...
- Gen. George Washington
Washington was defeated at the Battle of Brandywine on...
- American Regiments
On June 14, 1775, the Continental Congress in Philadelphia...
- Revolutionary War Raids & Skirmishes in 1776
1 day ago · In fact, while Washington and Howe squared off near Philadelphia, another set of American and British armies fought in upstate New York. At the battles of Saratoga in September and October 1777, American forces eventually forced the British to surrender. Victory at Saratoga proved critical to the American cause.
5 days ago · Battle of Bunker Hill, (June 17, 1775), first major battle of the American Revolution, fought in Charlestown (now part of Boston) during the Siege of Boston. Although the British eventually won the battle, it was a Pyrrhic victory that lent considerable encouragement to the revolutionary cause.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
4 days ago · In late May of 1777, Washington moved his small army of under 8,000 men from the winter encampment at Morristown to a seasonal encampment near Martinsville in the Middlebrook Heights straddling the ridge of the First Watchung Mountains.
4 days ago · Medieval Gloucester: Town government, 1483-1547. 54-57. Medieval Gloucester: The regulation of trade. 57-59. Medieval Gloucester: The town and the religious communities. 59-63. Medieval Gloucester: Topography. 63-72. Early Modern Gloucester (to 1640): Population and economic development to 1640.
5 days ago · The battle, which resulted in the defeat of U.S. forces, was the most significant action of the Great Sioux War of 1876. It took place on June 25–26, 1876, along the Little Bighorn River in the Crow Indian Reservation in southeastern Montana Territory.
18 hours ago · Map of military operations since 1950. 1950–1953: Korean War: The United States responded to the North Korean invasion of South Korea by going to its assistance, pursuant to United Nations Security Council resolutions. U.S. forces deployed in Korea exceeded 300,000 during the last year of the active conflict (1953).
