Timeline for the Philadelphia Campaign
also known as the Pennsylvania or Delaware Valley Campaign
August 1777 - June 1778
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CAMPAIGN
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MAJOR ENGAGEMENT
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1777 Apr 25
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PA Supreme Executive Council calls out 1st class PA militia
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1777 May 18
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1st class PA militia gathers at Bristol, PA
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1777 early June
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PA militia at Delaware River ferries above Bristol sent to reinforce Washington’s Continental Army in NJ
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1777 June 13
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Rest of 1st class PA militia to guard the now undefended ferries
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1777 June 14
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Cont. Congress passes 13 stars & stripes flag resolution.
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Philadelphia Campaign
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1777 July - August
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2nd classs Bucks Militia at Billingsport, NJ, working on earthenworks guarding main Delaware River channel.
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1777 July 19
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British army demonstrates at [Perth] Amboy, NJ
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1777 July 24
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British “Fleet left Sandy Hook,” NJ, yesterday
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1777 July 25
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Cont. Army departs Bounding Brook, NJ, for Philadelphia
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1777 July 25
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“Enemy Fleet off Little Egg Harbour”, NJ
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1777 July 28
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British fleet off Capes of the Delaware on 30 July at 5 am
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1777 July 31 - Aug 1
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Main Continental Army crosses Delaware River into PA using Coryell's [New Hope] & Howell's ferries.
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1777 Aug 1
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“Enemy’s fleet sailed out of the Capes in an Eastward course” on 31 July at 8 am
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1777 Aug 2-9
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Cont. Army camps at Falls of Schuylkill / Roxborough
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1777 Aug 9
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‘Reports’ from 1 & 2 Aug of British fleet off MA coast
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1777 Aug 10
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British “Fleet was seen off of Sinapuxon”, a MD inlet, [now site of Ocean City, MD] on 7 Aug
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1777 Aug 10-23
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CAMP AT NESHAMINI [sic] CREEK [Hartsville, PA]
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1777 Aug 21 pm
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Enemy “Fleet of ships was off the Capes of VA” on 14 Aug
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1777 Aug 22
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“Howe’s Fleet is high up in the North east part of Chesapeak Bay”
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1777 Aug 24
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Continental Army marches through Philadelphia
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1777 Aug 25
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“Enemy began to land this Morning Six Miles below Head of Elk” in MD
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1777 Sept 3
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Cooch’s Bridge, DE [south of Newark, DE]
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1777 Sept 11
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Brandywine Creek, PA [Chadd’s Ford]
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1777 Sept 16
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“Battle” in the Clouds [Frazer, PA]
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1777 Sept 20/21
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Paoli Massacre [really in Malvern, PA]
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1777 Sept 26
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Philadelphia occupied by British forces
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1777 Oct 2
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British capture Fort at Billingsport, NJ
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1777 Oct 4
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Germantown, PA
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1777 Oct 22-23
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Fort Mercer / Red Bank, NJ (land & river)
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1777 Oct 10-Nov 15
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Fort Island (Mifflin), PA (land & river) [east of present airport]
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1777 early Dec
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Bucks militia under Lt. Col. John Lacey to Whitemarsh
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1777 Dec 5-8
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Whitemarsh (Edge Hill), PA
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1777 Dec 19
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Cont.Army enters Winter Quarters at Valley Forge, PA
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1778 Jan - May
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LAND BLOCKADE OF PHILADELPHIA (General LACEY)
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1778 Feb 19
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Loyalist Dragoons raid mill in Newtown, PA
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1778 Feb 24
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Dragoons intercept 130 oxen being driven to Valley Forge
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1778 May 1
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Battle of Crooked Billet (Lacey & PA Militia)
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1778 June 15
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Philadelphia abandoned by British
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1778 June 20 or 21
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Portion of Continental Army encamps in Doylestown, PA
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1778 June 21 or 22
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Portion of Continental Army crosses at Coryell’s Ferry, PA
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1778 June 28
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Monmouth Courthouse, NJ
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