Philadelphia campaign
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The Philadelphia campaign was a British military campaign during the American Revolutionary War designed to gain control of Philadelphia. Philadelphia was the Revolutionary-era capital where the Secon
The Battle of Brandywine, a major battle of the campaign
1776 portrait of George Washington, commander of the Continental Army
Lord George Germain, the British Secretary of State for the Colonies
British Army General Sir William Howe
George Washington
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George Washington was a Founding Father and the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. As commander of the Continental Army, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the A
Philadelphia campaign
…Philadelphia. Philadelphia was 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 following year, on July 4, 1776, which formalized…
Portrait, c. 1803
Ferry Farm, the Washington family residence on the Rappahannock River in Stafford County, Virginia, where Washington spent much of his youth
Washington the Soldier, an 1834 portrait of Washington on horseback during the Battle of the Monongahela
Colonel George Washington, a 1772 portrait of Washington by Charles Willson Peale