Pennsylvania was the site of many key events associated with the American Revolution and American Revolutionary War. The city of Philadelphia, then capital of the Thirteen Colonies and the largest cit
Washington Crossing the Delaware, an 1851 portrait by Emanuel Leutze of George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River from Pennsylvania to New Jersey in December 1776
Join, or Die by Benjamin Franklin and published in The Pennsylvania Gazette on May 9, 1754, was the first political cartoon in America
A covert August 10, 1777 letter from Henry Clinton to John Burgoyne concerning the beginning of the Philadelphia campaign. Clinton used the covert mask method to disguise the letter's intended contents.
A Dreadful Scene of Havoc, a 1782 painting by Xavier della Gatta depicting the Battle of Paoli commissioned for a British Army officer who participated in the attack, is now in the collection of the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia.
Battle of Brandywine
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The Battle of Brandywine, also known as the Battle of Brandywine Creek, was fought between the American Continental Army of General George Washington and the British Army of General Sir William Howe o
Pennsylvania in the American Revolution
…Conway Cabal (1777–1778) Battle of Brandywine (September 11, 1777) - the largest battle of the American Revolution by number of troops engaged, and the longest single-day battle of the war, with…
Washington and Lafayette at the Battle of Brandywine John Vanderlyn, c. 1825
Sketch of the battle made by a British Army ensign
Nation Makers by Howard Pyle depicts a scene from the battle. The painting hangs in the Brandywine River Museum.
Birmingham Friends Meetinghouse in 2017