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...e site was then briefly the focus of a military encampment of about 12,000 Continental soldiers and militia led by General [[George Washington]]. In 1827, work b ...Revolutionary War, in August 1777, [[George Washington]] and his colonial army took positions along Red Clay Creek near Brandywine Springs to defend again

...ssett. His father was a Virginia planter who served as a delegate to the [[Continental Congress]] (1774–1777), signed the [[United States Declaration of Indepen ..."Mad Anthony" Wayne]], from whom he learned how to successfully command an army on the [[American frontier]]. Harrison participated in Wayne's decisive vic

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...in June, George Washington was made commander in chief of the Continental Army. ...clared the colony's independence, instructed the Virginia delegates to the Continental Congress to propose general colonial independence (resulting in the Declara

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...ngress]], forming the [[Northwest Territory]] in 1783. As delegate to the Continental Congress (1780-83), Madison was considered a legislative workhorse and a ma ...ugh Madison was a shy man, he was one of the more outspoken members of the Continental Congress. He envisioned a strong federal government that could overrule act

The cloudy continental weather and the haze of the industrial Ruhr valley greatly reduced the Nord ...nd the OVERLORD landing and COBRA breakout were made much easier. With the army's success on the ground, the Eighth returned to its bombing missions over G