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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.
Battle of Germantown. The Battle of Germantown on 4 October 1777 pitted a 9,000-man British army under General William Howe against an 11,000-strong American army commanded by General George Washington. After an initial advance, the American reserve allowed itself to be diverted by 120 British troops holding out in the Benjamin Chew House.
Battle of Paoli: September 21, 1777: Pennsylvania: British victory Siege of Fort Mifflin: September 26 – November 15, 1777: Pennsylvania: British victory Battle of Germantown: October 4, 1777: Pennsylvania: British victory Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery: October 6, 1777: New York: British victory 2nd Battle of Saratoga: October 7 ...
By 1777, he had been appointed a local brigadier general and commanded a brigade. General Agnew was engaged at the Battle of Long Island in 1776. In 1777, Agnew accompanied British forces under the command of General William Tryon and General William Erskine on an inland raid against Patriot supply depot in Danbury, Connecticut.
The 8th NC Regiment contributed significantly in the Revolutionary War. They marched poorly clothed and mostly barefoot nearly 500 miles to Philadelphia area. Most of the men from the 8th NC were killed or wounded storming the Crew of "Stone House" in the Battle of Germantown on 4 Oct 1777.[3] This battle served as a turning point for the ...
After the second battle, Burgoyne lit fires at his remaining forward positions and withdrew under the cover of darkness. He withdrew his men 10–15 miles north, near present-day Schuylerville, New York. By the morning of October 8, he was back in the fortified positions he had held on September 16.
October 4 – Francis Nash, Continental Army brigadier general, mortally wounded at Battle of Germantown (born c.1742) October 7 – Simon Fraser, British Army general, killed in Battle of Bemis Heights (born 1729 in Scotland) November 10 – Cornstalk (Hokoleskwa), Shawnee chief, murdered (born c.1720)
Tyrrell County Regiment, North Carolina militia (1775-1777) 9/9/1775, a Colonel in the Tyrrell County Regiment of militia. 4/15/1776 until his death in May 1778, Colonel of the 5th North Carolina Regiment; 10/4/1777, captured at Germantown, POW in Philadelphia, paroled; May 1778, fell down a flight of stairs, reopened old wounds, died as a result.