Born in 1777:
Died in 1777:
Events of 1777:
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War of American Independence:
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Political activities
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Fighting
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(January) George Washington captures Princeton, New
Jersey, then settles down for the winter in Morristown.
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(April-June) Lord Cornwallis tries to drive Washington out of New Jersey,
but the Continental army and the New Jersey militia eventually force him
to withdraw back to New York.
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(May) Count Casimir Pulaski arrives in Philadelphia.
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(June 27) The Marquis de Lafayette arrives in Philadelphia. Commissioned
as a Major General by Congress, he meets Washington on August 1.
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British troops, Canadian loyalists and Seneca Indians advance into New
York from the west. they lay siege to Fort Stanwix
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General Howe leaves New York and sails around to the head of the Chesapeake
Bay with the intention of capturing Philadelphia.
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(August 6) The bloody Battle of Oriskany in western New York. A force
of German militia and [Oneida Indians are mauled by the British, Canadians
and Senecas, but the latter are forced to withdraw to Canada.
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(September 3) General Howe forces Washing ton's army to retreat at the
Battle of Brandywine. Count Casimir Pulaski is commissioned as a brigadier
general in the Continental army, in charge of all American cavalry.
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(September 20) General Anthony Wayne is suprised by the British
at the Battle of Paoli near Philadelphia,
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(October 3-4) Washington is badly defeated at Germantown,
Pennsylvania.
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(September-October) British general Henry Clinton drives General Israel
Putnam and his distant cousin George Clinton, Governor of New York,
out of the the Highlands on the west side of the Hudson. A British
army advances up the Hudson River Valley.
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(October 17) The Continental army under Benedict Arnold and Horatio
Gates defeats the British army at the Battle of Saratoga, capturing
General Burgoyne. This is one of the key victories of the war.
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(October 18) The British army advancing up the Hudson arrives in Albany,
where the news of Saratoga forces them to withdraw back to New York City.
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(October 19) General Howe takes control of Philadelphia. Congress
retreats to York, PA.
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Washington's army retreats to Valley Forge for its terrible winter there.
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A secret treaty between the Duke of Bavaria and the Austrian emperor
cedes lower Bavaria to Austria. This leads to the War of Bavarian
Succession between Austria and Prussia.
1776 - 1777 - 1778
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