Join us for a two-day experience in southeastern Pennsylvania to explore the Battle of Brandywine that includes a buffet dinner and lecture at Radley Run Country Club, located in the same area where General William Howe launched his attack in the afternoon hours of the engagement, and a lecture given by historical archaeologist Wade P. […]
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Dinner & Lecture – “Left Newport … Before Daylight and March’d to Chads Ford”: The Landscape of Conflict and the Battle of Brandywine, September 11, 1777
Prior to the Battle of Brandywine, the American and British armies maneuvered across a suburban landscape familiar to many residents of Delaware and Pennsylvania. Throughout the days before the battle, however, New Castle County, Delaware, and neighboring Chester County, Pennsylvania, were militarized landscapes. During this period, General George Washington seized the strategic initiative and marched […]