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Washington–Rochambeau Revolutionary Route (Bucks, Philadelphia, and Delaware counties, PA), National Historic Trail established in 2009 that passes through Pennsylvania, interpreting and marking the route of forces under generals George Washington and Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau during their 1781 march from Newport ...
Only once during that period did Pennsylvania vote for a presidential candidate that was not a Republican; the lone exception was former Republican President Theodore Roosevelt in 1912. The Republican Party was nearly as dominant in gubernatorial elections , as Robert E. Pattison was the lone non-Republican to win election as governor between ...
In Southeastern Pennsylvania, iron masters who owned slaves sometimes leased them out locally to work at charcoal manufacture and the surface mining of limestone and iron ore. [7] Due to a lack of sanitation and understanding of disease transmission, Philadelphia was an unhealthy place during the colonial period, with a death rate of 58 per 1,000.
Pacifism in the United States: From the Colonial Era to the First World War. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968. Kashatus, William C. III. Conflict of Conviction: A Reappraisal of Quaker Involvement in the American Revolution. Lanham: University Press of America, 1990. Mekeel, Arthur J. The Quakers and the American Revolution. York ...
This category includes people associated with Pennsylvania during the American Revolution. People in this category should not also be placed in Category:People of colonial Pennsylvania, unless they were notable in Pennsylvania before the Revolutionary era (i.e. before about 1765).
(Source: James Thacher, "Military Journal during the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783".) As described under "colours", the regiment in 1776 wore green hunting shirts with black caps trimmed white adorned with feather while the officers wore green coats with red facings and similar caps. [1]
Articles and categories related to Pennsylvania during the American Revolution The main article for this category is Pennsylvania in the American Revolution . For more information, see American Revolution and Pennsylvania .
James Potter (1729–1789) was a soldier, farmer, and politician from Colonial-and Revolutionary-era Pennsylvania. He rose to the rank of brigadier general of Pennsylvania militia during the Revolutionary War, and served as Vice-President of Pennsylvania, 1781–1782.