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April 13, 1777: New Jersey: British victory Battle of Ridgefield: April 27, 1777: Connecticut: British victory Battle of Thomas Creek: May 17, 1777: East Florida: British victory Meigs Raid: May 24, 1777: New York: American victory Battle of Short Hills: June 26, 1777: New Jersey: British victory Siege of Fort Ticonderoga: July 5–6, 1777: New ...
The Battles of Saratoga (September 19 and October 7, 1777) marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War. British General John Burgoyne led an invasion army of 7,200–8,000 men southward from Canada in the Champlain Valley, hoping to meet a similar ...
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 ...
In September 1777, fearing a British Army attack on the revolutionary capital of Philadelphia in the Philadelphia campaign, American patriots moved the Liberty Bell to Zion United Church of Christ on present-day Hamilton Street in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where the Liberty Bell was successfully hidden under the church's floor boards for nine ...
November 25 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Gloucester; November 29 – San Jose, California is founded. It is the first pueblo in Spanish Alta California. December 5–8 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of White Marsh; December 11 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Matson's Ford
The Battle of Germantown was a major engagement in the Philadelphia campaign of the American Revolutionary War.It was fought on October 4, 1777, at Germantown, Pennsylvania, between the British Army led by Sir William Howe, and the American Continental Army under George Washington.
The Saratoga campaign in 1777 was an attempt by the British to gain military control of the strategically important Hudson River valley during the American Revolutionary War. It ended in the surrender of a British army, which historian Edmund Morgan argues, "was a great turning point of the war, because it won for Americans the foreign ...
3 January – American Revolution: American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton. [2] 1 May – legal case of Goodright v. Stevens decides that the declaration of either parent cannot be accepted to prove that a child born in wedlock is a bastard.