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The Continental Army was the national army of first the Thirteen Colonies, and then the independent United States, during the American Revolutionary War, established by a resolution of the Congress on June 14, 1775, three days before the Battle of Bunker Hill, where it saw its first action under that title.
Joseph Warren † an American physician who played a leading role in American Patriot organizations in Boston in the early days of the American Revolution, eventually serving as President of the revolutionary Massachusetts Provincial Congress. Warren enlisted Paul Revere and William Dawes on April 18, 1775, to leave Boston and spread the alarm ...
Vermont did not become a state until 1791, after the American Revolution. New York asserted that Vermont was part of New York. [109] Revolutionary War units: 6th Regiment of militia, 1780–1781 [8] 7th Regiment of militia, 1782 [8] Abbott's Regiment of militia, 1781 [8] Clark's Company of militia, 1778–1780 [8] Durkee's Company of militia ...
Colonel James De Lancey [a] (September 6, 1746 – May 2, 1804) was an American-born military officer and politician who led one of the best known and most feared of the loyalist units, De Lancey's Brigade, during the American Revolution.
The "German Battalion" (also known as the "German Regiment" or 8th Maryland) was an infantry formation of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Authorized in May 1776 as an extra Continental regiment , the battalion recruited ethnic Germans from Maryland and Pennsylvania .
John Nixon (March 1, 1727 – March 24, 1815) was an American brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He was born in Framingham, Massachusetts, on March 1, 1727, to Christopher and Mary Nixon.
Private, De Lancey's Westchester Light Horse Battalion, 1780, by Charles M. Lefferts.. De Lancey's Brigade, also known as De Lancey's Volunteers, De Lancey's Corps, De Lancey's Provincial Corps, De Lancey's Refugees, and the "Cowboys" or "Cow-boys", was a Loyalist British provincial military unit, raised for service during the American War of Independence.
The Light Infantry Division was a large unit of the Continental Army that fought in the American Revolutionary War. It was formed by unifying the detached light infantry companies from several infantry regiments in September 1781. Its two brigades were made up of three battalions each, though the second brigade was later reorganized into four.