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    The Philadelphia campaign (1777–1778) was a British military campaign during the American Revolutionary War designed to gain control of Philadelphia, the...
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    the war's Philadelphia campaign. In 1787, the U.S. Constitution was ratified in Philadelphia at the Philadelphia Convention. Philadelphia remained the...
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    New York City and Philadelphia. However, poor campaign planning for 1777 contributed to the failure of John Burgoyne's Saratoga campaign, which played a...
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    under George Washington in the Boston campaign, the New York and New Jersey campaign, and the Philadelphia campaign before being appointed quartermaster...
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    Cornwallis participated in many campaigns in North America. He served under Howe and Clinton in the New York and Philadelphia campaigns and was given control of...
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    The city of Philadelphia was founded and incorporated in 1682 by William Penn in the English Crown Province of Pennsylvania between the Delaware and Schuylkill...
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  • General George Washington. He led North Carolina's soldiers in the Philadelphia campaign, but was wounded at the Battle of Germantown on October 4, 1777...
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  • New Jersey campaigns (1776–1777) Saratoga campaign (1777) Philadelphia campaign (1777–1778) Yorktown campaign (1781) Northern theater of the American Revolutionary...
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    Knox was present at Brandywine, the first major battle of the Philadelphia campaign, and at Germantown. At Germantown he made the critical suggestion...
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    Battle of Brandywine (category Battles of the Philadelphia Campaign)
    Retrieved March 19, 2013. Philadelphia 1777: Taking the Capital, Clement, p. 23 McGuire, Thomas J.; The Philadelphia Campaign: Volume 1: Brandywine and...
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