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The David Library's location in Washington Crossing, PA closed December 31, 2019. [18] Historical Society of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA), extensive historical archives and book holdings related to Pennsylvania history. Located on the same block as the Library Company of Philadelphia.
A Single Blow: The Battles of Lexington and Concord and the Beginning of the American Revolution, April 19, 1775. Emerging Revolutionary War Series. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2018. ISBN 978-1-61121-379-9.
Pennsylvania: Battle called off due to rain Battle of Freeman's Farm: September 19, 1777: New York: British tactical victory: First of the two Battles of Saratoga: Battle of Paoli: September 21, 1777: Pennsylvania: British victory Siege of Fort Mifflin: September 26 – November 15, 1777: Pennsylvania: British victory Battle of Germantown ...
The Lexington Alarm announced, throughout the American Colonies, that the Revolutionary War began with the Battle of Lexington and the Siege of Boston on April 19, 1775. The goal was to rally patriots at a grass roots level to fight against the British and support the minutemen of the Massachusetts militia .
Born in Pennsylvania, Patterson migrated to Kentucky in 1775. He served in the Kentucky militia in the western theater of the American Revolutionary War.He took part in George Rogers Clark's celebrated Illinois campaign in 1778, and fought in many other actions during the war.
A Plan of the New Fort at Pitts-Burgh drawn by cartographer John Rocque in 1765. Fort Pitt was a fort built by British forces between 1759 and 1761 during the French and Indian War at the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers, where the Ohio River is formed in western Pennsylvania (modern day Pittsburgh).
The Col. James Barrett Farm (Barrett's Farm) is a historic American Revolutionary War site in Concord, Massachusetts, associated with the revolution's first battle, the 1775 battles of Lexington and Concord. His farm was the storage site of all the town of Concord's militia gunpowder, weapons and two pairs of prized bronze cannons.
Westsylvania was a proposed state of the United States located in what is now West Virginia, southwestern Pennsylvania, and small parts of Kentucky, Maryland, and Virginia. First proposed early in the American Revolution , Westsylvania would have been the fourteenth state in the newly formed United States, had it been recognized.