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The Philadelphia campaign (1777–1778) was a British military campaign during the American Revolutionary War designed to gain control of Philadelphia, the Revolutionary-era capital where the Second Continental Congress convened, formed the Continental Army, and appointed George Washington as its commander in 1775, and later authored and unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence the ...
Organizing elections to select delegates to a constitutional convention – which framed the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776. [ 1 ] As the last holdout among the Thirteen Colonies to declare independence, the conference's actions had a profound impact on American public opinion and facilitated the issuing of the Declaration of Independence ...
January 2 – The Tory Act of 1776 is signed by Peyton Randolph. [1] June 18–25 – The Pennsylvania Provincial Conference takes place at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia declaring Pennsylvania independent from Great Britain. July 4 – Henry Beeson published a plat of quarter-acre plots near his mill in Union now Uniontown. [2]
Benjamin Towne published the first issue of the Post on January 24, 1775, [6] using paper borrowed from James Humphreys without expectation of payment. [7] The paper was supportive of the cause of the American Revolution, [6] and was the first to publish the United States Declaration of Independence, with it taking up the front page of the July 6, 1776 issue.
1776 (released in the United Kingdom as 1776: America and Britain at War) [1] is a book written by David McCullough, published by Simon & Schuster on May 24, 2005. The work is a companion to McCullough's earlier biography of John Adams, and focuses on the events surrounding the start of the American Revolutionary War.
Trenton and Princeton 1776–77: Washington Crosses the Delaware. Oxford, U.K.: Osprey Publishing, 2009. Dwyer, William M. The Day is Ours!: November 1776 – January 1777: An Inside View of the Battles of Trenton and Princeton. New York: Viking Press, 1983. ISBN 978-0-670-11446-7. [7] Fischer, David Hackett. Washington's Crossing. Oxford, New ...
The enlisted men were held by the British until December 26, 1776, when they were set free on parole. January to June 1777 – During this period the unit was reorganized as the 6th Regiment with Colonel Henry Bicker as its commander. Many of the men who served in 1776 reenlisted and to these were added new recruits to fill out the regiment.
Auction house listing of rare books sold by Robert Bell, 1780. Robert Bell (1732–1784) was a Scottish immigrant to the British colonies in America and became one of many early American printers and publishers active during the years leading up to and through the American Revolution.