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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 Pennsylvania Line was a formation within the Continental Army. The term "Pennsylvania Line" referred to the quota of numbered infantry regiments assigned to Pennsylvania at various times by the Continental Congress. These, together with similar contingents from the other twelve states, formed the Continental Line.
This category includes articles on the Pennsylvania Line, a formation of the Continental Army. Pages in category "Pennsylvania regiments of the Continental Army" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
Grayson's Additional Continental Regiment [40] Patton's Additional Continental Regiment [41] Lord Stirling. Division: Major General William Alexander, Lord Stirling (1,500) [42] [43] New Jersey Brigade: Brigadier General William Maxwell [note 1] 1st New Jersey Regiment, Colonel Matthias Ogden [44] [45] 2nd New Jersey Regiment
Hartley's Additional Continental Regiment was authorized on 12 January 1777 for service with the Continental Army. [1] In December 1776, as his army retreated across New Jersey under British pressure, George Washington appealed to the Continental Congress for more soldiers. In September 1776, Congress had authorized an army of 88 infantry ...
Walter Stewart (1756 – June 16, 1796) was an Irish-born American general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.. Stewart began his military career as captain of a Pennsylvania infantry company at the beginning of the American Revolutionary War.
Feb. 14—PORT CLINTON — One of the largest operating steam locomotives on the East Coast will be hauling three special passenger excursions this summer, including trips to bring visitors up to ...
The wounded later received Purple Hearts (originally reserved for service members wounded by enemy action while partaking in armed conflicts) for their peacetime actions that day on June 13, 1944; the three firefighters killed did not receive theirs until December 7, 1984, on the 43rd anniversary of the attack. This made the nine men the only ...