Philadelphia Campaign (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew A. Kalos.

On evening of September 20, 1777, and into the morning hours of September 21, British Major General Charles Gray led an elite force of British soldiers on a nighttime bayonet raid on American General Anthony Wayne’s encamped troops. The bloody attack enraged the Patriots, and the battle became engrained in American ideology as the Paoli Massacre.  Although the battle was brief, its national and local importance extends for over 225 years.  Today, archaeology at the Paoli Battlefield seeks to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew M. Outten.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond Battlefields: Culture and Conflict through the Philadelphia Campaign" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. On September 11, 1777, General Sir William Howe’s Crown Forces engaged General George Washington at the Battle of Brandywine. Their battlefield, one of the richest agricultural and milling regions in the mid-Atlantic colonies, was dominated by a large and peaceful Quaker population. Following the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Skic.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond Battlefields: Culture and Conflict through the Philadelphia Campaign" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The battles around Philadelphia in 1777 radically changed the life of Richard Mansergh St. George, a young Irish officer in the British Army. Wounded at Brandywine, a participant in what he described as “a dreadful scene of havock” at Paoli, and shot in the head at Germantown, St. George returned to...