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Timeline for the Philadelphia Campaign

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

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