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Harris, Michael C. Brandywine: A Military History of the Battle that Lost Philadelphia but Saved America, September 11, 1777. 2014. ISBN 9781611211627. Houpt, David W. To Organize the Sovereign People: Political Mobilization in Revolutionary Pennsylvania (U of Virginia Press, 2023) online book review; Knouff, Gregory T.
Battles of the American Revolutionary War in Pennsylvania (13 P) Pages in category "Battles in Pennsylvania" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
The 8th Pennsylvania Regiment or Mackay's Battalion was an American infantry unit that became part of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Authorized for frontier defense in July 1776, the eight-company unit was originally called Mackay's Battalion after its commander, Colonel Aeneas Mackay. Transferred to the main army ...
The 4th Pennsylvania Regiment, first known as the 3rd Pennsylvania Battalion, was raised on December 9, 1775, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for service with the Continental Army. The regiment was assigned to Thomas Mifflin's brigade in the main army on June 26, 1776. Part of the unit was captured at Fort Washington on November 16, 1776.
After the skirmish, the Loyalist and Native war party searched the surrounding area for several hours. The next day, they took their prisoners down Nescopeck Creek and towards the Susquehanna River before turning towards Berwick and Catawissa, Pennsylvania. [3] The soldiers who escaped the massacre spread the news as far as the Delaware River. [8]
Despite hardship, about 340 of the nearly 500 men who had been with the 1st Battalion at Ticonderoga joined the 2nd Pennsylvania Regiment in Trenton, where they served in a brigade under Brig. Gen. Thomas Mifflin and supported of Washington's Continental Army in the Battle of Princeton on January 3, 1777.
The 13th Pennsylvania Regiment of the Continental Army had its beginnings in the Pennsylvania State Regiment, which was formed via the merging of the Pennsylvania State Battalion of Musketry and the Pennsylvania State Rifle Regiment (also known as "Miles's Regiment"), which had been "formed for the defense of Pennsylvania proper," according to historian John B. B. Trussell.