The Battle of Brandywine, fought on September 11, 1777, along its namesake creek in the bucolic Pennsylvania countryside, was one of the largest engagements of the Revolutionary War. To those who participated in this massive battle, spread out over ten square miles and lasting from late ...
in the background, is a hint of the Spanish and Dutch contributions, suppliers of war materiel as well as the cloth for some of the uniforms that found its way onto the battlefields.
so too, bigger than death. In this case, as his present-day ghost wonders along Route 322 in Pennsylvania every January 1st, he may be mad as hell over bumbling soldiers and their poor choice of transportation. Or maybe a Native American Curse scorned...
Dreadful Prison shipJerseyanchored at the New York City Harbor off from the Brooklyn Naval Yard. More died from disease and malnutrition during captivity than American soldiers on all the battlefields of the war. The dreadful conditions of England’s prison ships ...