The siege of Fort Mifflin or the siege of Mud Island Fort, which took place from September 26 to November 16, 1777, saw British land batteries commanded...

Fort Mifflin, originally called Fort Island Battery and also known as Mud Island Fort, was commissioned in 1771 and sits on Mud Island (or Deep Water...

during the Philadelphia campaign, he also became commander of Fort Mifflin while it was under siege by the British. Throughout the campaign Hazelwood and General...

the Battle of Germantown, October 2–4 and 16–21, 1777 Siege of Fort Mifflin Fort Mifflin, Philadelphia site of the Siege of Fort Mifflin, which delayed...

notable engagements as the Battle of Brooklyn, the Battle of White Plains, the siege on Fort Mifflin and the Battle of Monmouth. He encamped at Valley Forge...

charge during the Siege of Fort Mifflin in October 1777 but did not distinguish himself, committing an act of cowardice in front of an American and a...

assembled at Forty Fort under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Zebulon Butler, an officer of the Continental Army home on leave. On July 1, Fort Wintermoot at...

Revolutionary War Siege of Fort Henry (1777) – American Revolutionary War Siege of Fort Mifflin (1777) – American Revolutionary War Siege of Pondicherry (1778)...

member of the Society of the Cincinnati of the State of Rhode Island. Thayer distinguished himself at the Siege of Fort Mifflin in the autumn of 1777....

officer of engineers. He fought at the Brandywine in September and was wounded at Germantown in early October. He served capably during the Siege of Fort Mifflin...

ISBN 978-0-393-24574-5. Chidsey, Donald Barr (1966). The siege of Boston; an on-the-scene account of the beginning of the American Revolution. Internet Archive. New...

meeting of delegates of 12 of the Thirteen Colonies held from September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia at the beginning of the...

Francisco rejoined his regiment and fought in the Battle of Germantown and the Siege of Fort Mifflin on Port Island in the Delaware River. Francisco was hospitalized...

driving royal officials out of several colonies, and launching the Siege of Boston in order to prevent the movement by land of British troops stationed there...

into the 50-gun ship Isis, and was present at the Battle of Red Bank and siege of Fort Mifflin, in October and November 1777. Under Cornwallis he then...

from Fort Mifflin. John Montresor, the British officer in charge of the Siege of Fort Mifflin, wrote that one lieutenant, the ship's chaplain and 60 of Augusta's...

officials considered moving the bell to Fort Knox, to be stored with the nation's gold reserves. The idea provoked a storm of protest from around the nation,...

National Park, New Jersey. The second was Fort Mifflin on Mud Island, in the Delaware River just south of the Delaware River's confluence with the Schuylkill...

Society. Stryker, William Scudder (1898). The Battles of Trenton and Princeton. Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Company. "Across the Delaware". Liberty's Kids...

posted to Canada in 1773. After the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War he was involved in the Siege of Fort St.-Jean. He and the other defenders surrendered...

Independence Archived September 26, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, p. 25 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002): "the Declaration is not a legal instrument, like the Constitution"...

man the frontier forts and to protect against Native American attacks. Meanwhile, each of the states had an army (or militia), and 11 of them had navies...

both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States were debated and adopted by the Founding Fathers of the United States. The...

Revolutionary War battles, the Siege of Fort Mifflin, fought between September 26 and November 16, 1777, and the Battle of Germantown, fought on October...

Portions of the unit defended Fort Mifflin where the 2nd Regiment's Major Simeon Thayer assumed command of the fort near the end of the siege. In 1778...

Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776 (ratified September 28, 1776) was the state's first constitution following its declaration of independence and has been...

Revolution. Combat ended in October 1781, with the surrender of the British after the Siege and Battle of Yorktown. The British, however continued to occupy New...

several maps drafted of the Delaware River, Forts Mifflin and Mercer and the greater Philadelphia area. Philadelphia portal List of American Revolutionary...

campaign and siege of Fort Mifflin. John Paul Jones was a captain in the Continental Navy and famously took captive HMS Serapis during the Battle of Flamborough...

The Battle of Brandywine, also known as the Battle of Brandywine Creek, was fought between the American Continental Army of General George Washington and...