Brandywine: A Military History of the Battle that Lost Philadelphia but Saved America, September 11, 1777

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Dramatis Personae

The 1777 Campaign Takes Shape

Northern New Jersey: Preliminaries, January - June 1777

Northern New Jersey: To Ships, June - July, 1777

To Sea and the Delaware: July 1777

To Sea and the Chesapeake: August 1-25, 1777

To Pennsylvania & First Contact: August 25 - September 2, 1777

To the Brandywine: September 3-10, 1777

The Continental Army: September 10, 1777

The British Army: September 10, 1777

The Eve of Battle: September 10, 1777

The Battle Begins: Morning, September 11, 1777

Mid-Day Lull: September 11, 1777

The British Assault Birmingham Hill: Afternoon, September 11, 1777

The British Assault Stirling and Stephen: Afternoon, September 11, 1777

Knyphausen Assaults Chads’s Ford: Evening, September 11, 1777

Nathanael Greene Makes a Stand: Evening, September 11, 1777

The Aftermath of Battle: September 12-16, 1777

Appendix A: The Battle of the Brandywine Order of Battle

Appendix B: Was the Earliest American Flag Carried into Battle at Cooch’s Bridge and/or the Brandywine?

Appendix C: Where did Lafayette Sleep?

Appendix D: Thomas Burke’s Attack Against John Sullivan’s Battlefield Performance, and Sullivan’s Defense

Appendix E: The Ferguson Rifles after the Battle of the Brandywine

Appendix F: The Main Characters, Thereafter

Appendix G: A History of the Battlefield: Commemoration and Preservation

Appendix H: The Use of Cavalry and Artillery at Brandywine

Maps have been placed throughout the book for the convenience of the reader.