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The American Battlefield Trust is working with various organizations and governments in Pennsylvania to preserve battlefields of the American Revolution, including Brandywine battlefield. [26] As of the 2010s, Chester County 's government is working with the local municipalities at the sites of the Battles of Brandywine, Paoli and the Clouds ...
The University of Pennsylvania was founded during this period, and Benjamin Franklin established various other organizations such as the American Philosophical Society, the Union Fire Company, and the Pennsylvania Abolition Society. By the start of the American Revolution, Philadelphia was the largest city in British North America. [26]
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.
Mutiny of the Pennsylvania Line. The Pennsylvania Line Mutiny was a mutiny of Continental Army soldiers, who demanded higher pay and better housing conditions, and was the cause of the legend and stories surrounding the American heroine Tempe Wick. The mutiny began on January 1, 1781, and ended with a negotiated settlement on January 8, 1781.
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 ...
(Source: James Thacher, "Military Journal during the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783".) As described under "colours", the regiment in 1776 wore green hunting shirts with black caps trimmed white adorned with feather while the officers wore green coats with red facings and similar caps. [1]
This category includes people associated with Pennsylvania during the American Revolution. People in this category should not also be placed in Category:People of colonial Pennsylvania, unless they were notable in Pennsylvania before the Revolutionary era (i.e. before about 1765).
Lieutenant colonel, Pennsylvania Militia (American Revolutionary War); member, Pennsylvania General Assembly Nicholas Lotz , also spelled Lutz , (February 20, 1740 – November 28, 1807) was a Pennsylvania militia officer during the American Revolutionary War and later served in the Pennsylvania General Assembly as a representative of Berks ...