# history amrev

9 Nov 1776 Most Gen Washington’s Continental Army crosses the North (Hudson) River for New Jersey. With the campaign for NY all but lost, the campaign for the Jerseys would soon commence.

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4 Nov 1775 Continental Congress reorganizes the Continental Army at Boston into a force of 20,372 officers and men, the majority remaining in service only through 1776.

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29 Oct 1776 Ft Lee, NJ Gen Nathanael Greene, commander of Forts Lee & Washington, pens letter to Gen Washington listing supplies needed & costs & suggesting places between Fort Lee & Philadelphia to store them.

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11 Oct 1776 Battle of Valcour Island fought over 2 days, the British fleet under Sir Guy Carleton defeats 15 American gunboats led heroically by Benedict Arnold. This delaying action gave the patriot ground forces a chance to prepare a defense of New York.

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6 Oct 1781 Yorktown, VA. Gen Washington symbolically turns the first shovel as the allies begin digging the first parallel siege line. Several days of rain have softened the ground, making digging quick, easy, and quiet. The line goes up in one night.

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3 Oct 1778 Philadelphia, PA. Circumventing Congress, Carlisle Commission prints offer of reconciliation to the American people, offering a full pardon to all who accept within 40 days.

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23 Sep 1781 Yorktown, VA. Gen Cornwallis informs Gen Clinton in NYC that he is trapped and can expect “the worst” if requested support does not arrive forthwith.

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20 Sep 1777 Malvern PA. Flints were removed to keep muskets silent British Gen Grey’s men surprised Gen Wayne’s division in the Paoli Massacre. Soldiers were bayonetted in their sleep & given no quarter. A total of 272 American casualties.

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10 Sep 1775 Cambridge, MA Disgruntled Penn. Riflemen move to Prospect Hill where regular troops surround the mutineers, who surrender their leaders for court martial. The leaders are found guilty & punished & the riflemen return to the lines.

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10 Sep 1750, Nicholas Biddle is born in Phila. He served in the Royal Navy and as a merchant seaman before the In 1775, Congress appointed him a captain & Biddle commanded several ships.

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3 Sep 1779, American Capt John Paul Jones sailed along the coast of Britain intent on raiding Leith, Edinburgh & Newcastle-on-Tyne. His actual damage would be modest, but the morale effect on the populace was considerable.

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24 Aug 1776, American Gen Charles Lee informs Congress that Georgia was more valuable than suspected with natural resources & proximity to the West Indies, it must be out of enemy hands. Lee recommends the Continental Army send additional reinforcements.

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23 Aug 1777 Fort Stanwix, NY Native allies under Lt Col Barry St Leger panic on news of Benedict Arnold’s relief column. The British abandon the siege & their camp & equipment in a flight west.

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20 Aug 1776. Long Island, NY. American Gen Nathanael Greene comes down with a fever and is replaced as commander of the forward-deployed Continentals by the fiery Gen John Sullivan, who will soon face a British onslaught.

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18 Aug 1780 Fishing Creek, SC. Col Banastre Tarleton &350 Loyalists surprise a Patriot force under Gen Thomas Sumter, 40 miles from Camden, killing 150, wounding & capturing 300, & freeing 100 British prisoners. Loyalists lost just 16 killed.

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14 Aug 1775 Ft Ticonderoga, NY Maj John Brown returns from a mission to Canada & reports that the French settlers & Indians are neutral & that St Johns has a small garrison of 300 men. Gen Phillip Schuyler judges the province ripe for invasion.

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13 Aug 1779 Penobscot, MA. A British fleet, under Sir George Collier, sails into Penobscot Bay but Commodore Dudley Saltonstall flees upriver & burns/scuttles his ships. Over 3 days, the Patriots will lose 43 ships & suffer almost 500 casualties.

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12 Aug 1777 General Orders issued by Gen Washington approved 50 lashes for a soldier found drunk on duty. Luckily, he was acquitted of allowing a prisoner to escape. 50 lashes were often a death sentence.

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12 Aug 1776 Oconee Co, SC A Patriot expedition under Maj Andrew Williamson defeats a large Cherokee war party near the village of Tamasee. After their victory, the Patriots burned the town.

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11 Aug 1778 Paramus, NJ At the court-martial, Gen Charles Lee is convicted of insubordination & suspended from the Continental Army for one year.

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