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The Battle Of Brandywine
Title: The Battle Of Brandywine
Category: History
Details: Words: 631 | Pages: 2.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Battle Of Brandywine
The Battle of Brandywine:
Part 1 of 10
The British...
Many of the 15,000 British troops spent the night in Kennett Square
-- population 2,000 -- unwinding and carousing, while a battle
loomed.
General Howe's flanking strategy was devised two days earlier:
While General Knyphausen attacked at Chadd's Ford, as
Washington expected, Cornwallis would stealthily move north, cross
the Brandywine, and flank Washington's right. [Map and a fuller
explanation]
The Americans...
By the night of September
10th, the American troops were
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…showed last 75 words of 631 total…day quoted the general as saying:
Should they push their designs against Philadelphia, on this
route, there all is at stake. They will put the contest on the event of
a single battle. If they are overthrown they are utterly undone. The
war is at an end. Now, then, is the time for our most strenuous
endeavors. One bold stroke will free the land.
Washington's army seemed well-positioned and well-prepared to
meet the British thrust.
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