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 and formed the Continental Army and appointed George Washington as its commander in 1775, and authored and unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence the following year, on July 4, 1776, which formalized and escalated the war.
Statue of Anthony Wayne at Valley Forge
Portrait of George Washington by Léon Cogniet
Lord George Germain
General Sir William Howe
Major-General Nathanael Greene was an American military officer and planter who served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. He emerged from the war with a reputation as one of George Washington's most talented and dependable officers, and is known for his successful command in the Southern theater of the conflict.
1792 portrait of Greene by John Trumbull
Painting by Charles Willson Peale
Commemorative stamp of George Washington and Nathanael Greene, Issue of 1937
Monument to Greene at the Guilford Courthouse National Military Park in Greensboro, NC