History of the United States I / Unit 6 USH1 0763 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Brandywine and Philadelphia
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The idea
In autumn seventeen seventy-seven Howe brought fifteen thousand troops via Chesapeake Bay, defeated Washington at Brandywine Creek and took Philadelphia.
In practice
Congress fleeing the city and Washington withdrawing to Valley Forge.
Where people slip
Losing the capital did not end the war, because the Continental Congress was not the source of the resistance.
Your place on the trail
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