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Each year on or near the anniversary date, the White Plains Historical Society hosts a commemoration of the event at the Jacob Purdy House in White Plains, New York. [46] Two ships in the United States Navy were named for the Battle of White Plains. CVE-66 was an escort carrier in World War II. AFS-4 was a combat stores ship that was ...
Battle of Coweecho River: September 19, 1776: North Carolina: American victory Battle of Valcour Island: October 11, 1776: New York: British victory: British defeat American naval force on Lake Champlain, but victory comes too late to press the offensive against the Hudson valley Battle of Mamaroneck: October 22, 1776 New York British tactical ...
Washington Crossing the Delaware, an iconic 1851 Emanuel Leutze portrait depicting Washington's covert crossing of the Delaware River on December 25–26, 1776 James Monroe, the last U.S. president to fight in the Revolutionary War as a Continental Army officer, took part in the crossing of the Delaware River and the Battle of Trenton alongside ...
George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River, which occurred on the night of December 25–26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War, was the first move in a complex and surprise military maneuver organized by George Washington, the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, which culminated in their attack on Hessian forces garrisoned at Trenton.
October 18 – American Revolution: Battle of Pell's Point. October 20 – The 1st Delaware General Assembly convenes. October 22 – American Revolution: Battle of Mamaroneck. [14] October 28 – American Revolution: Battle of White Plains: British forces arrive at White Plains, attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Americans.
Battle of Pell's Point (October 18) Battle of White Plains (October 29) Battle of Fort Cumberland (November 10–29) Battle of Fort Washington (November 16) Battle of Fort Lee (November 20) Ambush of Geary (December 14) Battle of Iron Works Hill (December 23–26) Washington Crossing the Delaware, painting 1851 by Emanuel Leutze. Battle of ...
The Invasion of Quebec (June 1775 – October 1776, French: Invasion du Québec) was the first major military initiative by the newly formed Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. The objective of the campaign was to seize the Province of Quebec (part of modern-day Canada) from Great Britain , and persuade French-speaking ...
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, formed the Continental Army, and appointed George Washington as its commander in 1775, and later authored and unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence the ...