The Continental Army was formed after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War by the colonies that became the United States of America.

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The Continental Army faced insermountable odds and over came. Never give in!

74 - George Washington had 74 generals in the Continental Army

Where did George Washington with the Continental Army fight in your..woods..

Founders History - 9 April 1778 - J Wadsworth was promoted to Commissary General of Purchases for Continental Army:

Did you know that on this day in 1738 General Rufus Putnam, Chief Engineer of the Continental Army, is born in Sutton, MA?

On this day in1778,Jeremiah Wadsworth is named commissary general of purchases4the Continental Army at insistence of General GWashington

Who was the commander of th continental army? That's right, it was me

recently declared war on , the Federalists and Anti-Federalists have requested me and the Continental army to choose a side

Sported the 1770's General's hat with the prop wig, long blue Continental Army coat, shin high white socks, everything lmao patriotic ***

We need one true Continental Army to protect Africa from internal and external forces.

Is the Continental Congress and continental army the same thing?

On June 15, 1775, I was appointed general and commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.

TODAY IN HISTORY April 8, 1776 While delayed on his way to reinforce the Continental Army in Canada by ice on...

I was in the Continental Army, when there was only one continent.

Raymond Felton and Serge Ibaka proving the Continental Army still has some fight left in it.

Another thing - this new thing with fans singing brain dead continental style songs, "seven nation army" and "we love you", do one!

Uh-oh. Pacino being forced into service in the Continental army at bayonet point (if he wants to see his son again)

How many is the sideswipe about forming army particular linkages hereinafter the sacrament continental shelf sup:

Great and tough too! You had to be tough in the 1700s to lead the Continental Army! Most today wouldn't fit in my shoes! Yes, I am GREAT!

Look at me, you will see why I was Commander-n-Chief for the Continental Army and FIRST President of these great States! YES..I AM GREAT!

Very interesting paper from Thomas Wellman. Filling in the continental philosophy of New Model Army.

Children ages 6-12 are invited to "enlist" in the Continental Army at Valley Forge National Historical Park on...

at Valley Forge George Washington served to the Continental Army on Easter Sunday to bolster morale

2day 1776: Gen. Washington commander of Continental Army is awarded 1st Congressional Gold Medal by Cont'l Congress.

1776, Gen. George Washington, commander of the Continental Army, was awarded the first Congressional Gold Medal by the Continental Congress.

Ehhh ill pass on the continental Army breakfast.

Before crossing of the Delaware to victory at Trenton in 1776, George Washington read Paine's The American Crisis to the Continental Army.

SO MANY BOBBY MO. I mean, the Good Lord and the Continental Army? UK never had a chance

Read our latest blog post about Deborah Sampson, a woman who served in the Continental Army during the American...

In the 1890's the British Intelligence dept estimated that in the event of a continental or Asian war the army could must less than 1 corps.

What IS Right With America? The Wisdom of Our Founding Fathers. It wad the Continental Army's only Day Off in 1780:

Watching The Patriot. I'd love to have been part of the Continental Army and Patriot Militia. The Swamp Fox a was brilliant field tactician

George Washington was Commander of the Continental Army & 1st president of the U.S.

Idk what vision could be more sweet (or more American) than the Continental Army under a giant American Flag

I bet without the Continental Army chasing you.

1780: The Continental Army gets off to "stand in solidarity" with the in their quest for

On this day in 1780, Washington gives the Continental Army a day off in solidarity with the revolutionary struggle in Ireland.

On St Patricks day in 1780 George Washington gave the continental army the day off 'in solidarity with the Irish struggle for independence'

Happy Evacuation Day! "The 11-month siege of Boston ended when the Continental Army, under the...

I'm the first Commander in Chief of the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War of Independence of the United States. A huge pride (75-83)

Today in 1780: Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday in solidarity with Irish rebels warring against the British Crown.

On March 17, 1776, the Continental Army (led by George Washington & his artillery officer Henry Knox) forced the British to evacuate Boston.

G. Washington allowed Continental Army troops one day off during the winter of 1780: St. Patrick's Day in honor...

Historical register of officers of the Continental Army during the War of the Revolution, April, 1775, to December

Energized by the retreat, the Continental Army fght 4 sovereignty aftr the Continental Congress signed the Declar of Independence, July 4th

1780: American Revolution: George Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday "as an act of solidarity with the Irish Army

On March 17, 1780, George Washington granted a holiday to the Continental Army "as an act of solidarity with the...

"In God we trust " was adopted as the official motto of the United States in 1956 as an alternative or replacement to the unofficial motto of E pluribus unum, adopted when the Great Seal of the United States was created and adopted in 1782. The phrase appears to have originated in "The Star-Spangled Banner", written during the War of 1812. The fourth stanza includes the phrase, "And this be our motto: 'In God is our Trust.'" The question then becomes in what God? It is a widely held belief that the United States of America is founded on "Christian" principles. The truth of the matter is, that was NEVER the case. The founding fathers found some good teachings in the Bible. But that's the extent of it. I will only scratch the surface to close this case. But we must realize that practically no founding father held the Christian faith, let alone a Biblical faith as divine truth. George Washington: Commander & Chief of the Continental Army, Deist, Freemason, 1st President of the USA, (1732-1799) Historian Barr ...

Taking a tour of the Stony Point Battlefield overlooking the Hudson. Continental Army took it in a nighttime raid. Beautiful here.

Pridelets from Tommy for March 11, 2013. Q.UOTE "A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears." -- Gertrude Stein 1778, Lieutenant Gotthold Frederick Enslin is court-martialed in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, on sodomy charges. General George Washington will officially expel the soldier from the Continental Army, making him the first man in recorded history to be kicked out of the U.S. military for being *** 1934, the New York Times pans Radclyffe Hall's newest work "Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself." Seems they don't find the short story [of a *** who gets her groove back doing macho work: real estate, argument resolution, business affairs, and (gasp) taking charge as a kick *** ambulance corps battalion during the war] realistic. 1998, Gore Vidal notes that he, "would much rather have the children of the United States know about oral sex than listen to Oral Roberts. 1947, Allen Ginsberg writes controversial "emotion scientist" Wilhelm Reich asking for a referral to an doctor who cou ...

Comment E-mail PrintShareThis Now & Upcoming at the HSRC Daytrip - Historic Bergen County, NJ vonSteuben.jpg USSLing.jpg April 07, 2013 The Historical Society of Rockland County Invites You to Join Us on a Daytrip to visit Historic Bergen County, New Jersey Visit the site that inspired Thomas Paine to write: “These are the Times that Try Men’s Souls� Date: Sunday, April 7, 2013 Time: Leaves the Historical Society at 9:00am and returns at 5:00pm Cost: HSRC Members $89 per person; Non-members $99 per person, Trip includes bus transportation, guided tours and luncheon at Sanzari’s New Bridge Inn. Our first stop will be the A. Haring historic house on Piermont Road in Rockleigh. This house has been meticulously restored and is rarely open for public viewing. Then, we will travel to Fort Lee Historic Park... which overlooks the Hudson River and the George Washington Bridge. This park, situated on a cliff-top bluff was the location where the Continental Army positioned its batteries over the Hudson ...

We just do not learn from history; go ahead Congress, weaken our military again. The American Soldier, 1781. Source: U.S. Army Center of Military History Instead of working out plans for a peacetime army, in 1783 Congress ordered General George Washington to discharge the remaining regiments in the service, retaining only token garrisons at Fort Pitt to guard the western frontier and West Point, where the army’s artillery and ammunition were stored. This was an extremely unwise decision; the British had yet to turn over the northern and western forts they had promised to evacuate under the terms of the peace treaty. With no army to make the British think twice about ignoring the peace treaty, the forts would remain in enemy hands for another decade, enabling His Majesty’s soldiers to retain strongholds from which London would arm the Indians and do their best to sabotage the American union. General Washington decided to make the discharge of the rest of the Continental Army an occasion for a final goo ...

Henry Laurens (March 6, 1724 [O.S. February 24, 1723] – December 8, 1792) was an American merchant and rice planter from South Carolina who became a political leader during the Revolutionary War. A delegate to the Second Continental Congress, Laurens succeeded John Hancock as President of the Congress. He was a signatory to the Articles of Confederation and President when the constitution was passed on November 15, 1777. Laurens had earned great wealth as a partner in the largest slave-trading house in North America (Austin and Laurens). In the 1750s alone, this Charleston firm oversaw the sale of more than 8,000 enslaved Africans. He was for a time Vice-President of South Carolina and a diplomat to the Netherlands during the Revolutionary War. He was captured at sea and imprisoned for some time by the British in the Tower of London. His son John Laurens, a colonel in the Continental Army and officer on Washington's staff, believed that Americans could not fight for their own freedom while holding slave ...

Born on this day in 1745 Warsaw, Poland, Kazimierz Michal Waclaw Wiktor Pulaski of Clan Slepowron, commonly known as Casimir Pulaski, was a skilled military commander exiled from Poland in 1772 for revolutionary actions against the monarchy. He escaped to France, where he met an American representative named Benjamin Franklin, who gave him a letter of recommendation to General George Washington for a position with Continental Army.       Emigrating to the American colonies and offering his military services, he was initially given the rank of brigadier general, but later chose to organize an independent corps, known as the Pulaski Cavalry Legion. In 1778, Congress approved the establishment of the cavalry and put Pulaski at its head. Remembered as a tough and demanding leader who trained his men in tested cavalry tactics, he often used his own money to supply the needed equipment and supplies. He died on this date in 1799, two days after being injured during the Battle of Savannah. Considered the "fa ...

On this Day in Boston History March 4, 1776 The Fortification of Dorchester Heights was a decisive action early in the American Revolutionary War that precipitated the end of the siege of Boston and the withdrawal of British troops from that city. On March 4, 1776, troops from the Continental Army under George Washington's command occupied Dorchester Heights, a series of low hills with a commanding view of Boston and its harbor, and mounted powerful cannons there. General William Howe, commander of the British forces occupying the city, considered contesting this act, as the cannon threatened the town and the military ships in the harbor. After a snowstorm prevented execution of his plans, Howe decided instead to withdraw from the city. The British forces, accompanied by Loyalists who had fled to the city during the siege, left the city on March 17 and sailed to Halifax, Nova Scotia.

General Casimir Pulaski (1745-1779) Casimir Pulaski, son of Count Joseph Pulaski, was born in Warsaw, Poland, on March 6, 1745. At the age of fifteen, he joined his father and other members of the Polish nobility in opposing the Russian and Prussian interference in Polish affairs. Outlawed by Russia for his actions on behalf of Polish liberty, he traveled to Paris where he met Benjamin Franklin, who induced him to support the colonies against England in the American Revolution. Pulaski, impressed with the ideals of a new nation struggling to be free, volunteered his services. Franklin wrote to George Washington describing the young Pole as "an officer renowned throughout Europe for the courage and bravery he displayed in defense of his country's freedom." In 1777, Pulaski arrived in Philadelphia where he met General Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army. Later, at Brandywine, he came to the aid of Washington's forces and distinguished himself as a brilliant military tactician. For his eff ...

TODAY IN HISTORY March 4th is the 63rd day of the year (64th in leap years). There are 302 days remaining until the end of the year. 1493 – Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Niña from his voyage to what is now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean. 1628 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter. 1681 – Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania. 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston. 1789 – In New York City, the first Congress of the United States meets, putting the United States Constitution into effect. 1791 – A Constitutional Act is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario). 1791 – Vermont is admitted to the U.S. as the fourteenth state. 1794 â ...

Convinced Congress to create a Continental Army today in and who else should I nominate but ...he seems perfect for it

What Really Spawned the U.S. Constitution Brian Vanyo has a very interesting and thoughtful commentary on the federal government and its intrusion into our lives today. A recent author commented that the beginning of our Navy on 31 October 1775 was in fact the first act the Continental Congress made towards "NATION BUILDING." This is because of the requirements needed to administer and continue a campaign during a war at sea. Nothing during the subsequent Revolution required as much attention by a "national government" than did the navy. Rather than what each state could do on its own to supply regiments and supplies to the Continental Army. The Navy Committee had to find ships to purchase, outfit the ships, find shipyards, recruit sailors, commission officers, find ordinance and ammunition, provide for repairs and resupply, devise a strategy and recruit a Marine Corps for the protection of the ships. None of this could have been done successfully by one state or a group of states. It took a new nation to ...

On This Day In History. Silas Deane, Connecticut delegate to the Continental Congress, leaves for France on a secret mission on this day in 1776. The Committee of Congress for Secret Correspondence, consisting of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Harrison, John Dickinson, John Hay and Robert Morris, instructed Deane to meet with French Foreign Minister Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, to stress America's need for military stores and assure the French that the colonies were moving toward "total separation. Deane managed to negotiate for unofficial assistance from France, in the form of ships containing military supplies, and recruited the Marquis de Lafayette to share his military expertise with the Continental Army's officer corps. By November 6, 1776, Deane wrote the Committee, expressing his frustration at their lack of specific instructions, and reported that he had garnered, Two hundred pieces of brass cannon, and arms, tents and accoutrements for thirty thousand man, with ammunition in proportion, and ...

My Great(x7) Grandfather, William Grayson; Aid(-de-camp) to George Washington; Lieutenant Colonel of the Continental Army; cousin to James Monroe; one of the first 2 Senates of Virginia. My mom likes Ancestry.com :P

Here's one for the Tea Partiers... The Marshfield Tea Party But not everyone in Marshfield was a Loyalist. Despite the powerful influence of the Loyalist families, the town's Patriots eventually formed one of the revolutionary Committees of Correspondence. Marshfield native John Thomas (general), who lived in Kingston, raised an army of volunteers from Plymouth County for the Continental Army on April 23, 1775 known as the 2nd Massachusetts Regiment, also known as the 23rd Continental Regiment. General John Thomas's regiment would see action during the Siege of Boston. He received a letter from General George Washington praising his service. Other Marshfield Patriot leaders included his brother, Colonel Anthony Thomas, his nephew, Major Briggs Thomas and John Bourne. Marshfield even had its own version of the Boston Tea Party. At midnight on December 19, 1773, Marshfield Patriots confiscated tea from the old Ordinary in the town as a protest against the Crown and in sympathy with the Boston Tea Party, whi ...

Black History at Yale University: Cortlandt Van Resselaer Creed (Med 1857). Creed is the first African American to be awarded ANY degree by Yale. He received an M.D. from the Yale School of Medicine. Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Creed was born in April of 1833. Named for Cortlandt Van Rensselaer, a Yale alumnus and the son of a wealthy New York family, the young Creed graduated from the New Haven Lancasterian School, a forerunner of James Hillhouse High School. Creed’s mother, Vashti Duplex, was New Haven’s first African American schoolteacher and the daughter of Prince Duplex, a Revolutionary War soldier who gained freedom from slavery upon service to the Continental Army. The alumnus’ father, John William Creed, possibly a native of Santa Cruz, West Indies, was a Yale College janitor and a successful caterer for Yale for over 20 years. At the age of twenty-one Cortlandt Creed applied and was accepted to the Medical Department of Yale College in 1854. After receiving his medical degree in 1857, Creed d ...

I found out this year that my great, great, great, grandfather was the oldest man to die at the Alamo. OLDEST HERO AT THE ALAMO: GORDON JENNINGS OF CONNECTICUT Nicholas E. Hollis (All Rights Reserved) Gordon C. Jennings was born in May 1782 in Windham, Connecticut, the eldest son of Joseph and Ruth (Cartwright) Jennings. Joseph had served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War and traced his line to the Joshua Jennings’ family, which first settled in Hartford in the 1630s. A farmer, Gordon was among the first pioneers to settle in Troy, Missouri (outside St. Louis) in the early 1820s. In 1833, he and a brother moved with their families to Bastrop, Texas (near present-day Austin). Later, encouraged by the promise of land grant compensation, Gordon enlisted in the Texas militia on July 25, 1835 under Capt. R.M. Williamson in the command of Col. John H. Moore. On December 13, 1835, Gordon re-enlisted, this time under Col. William B. Travis. As Texas colonists became increasingly discontented ...

We have some information Bridgette might be interested in that was sent to us by Velma Simkins nee Benskin in Pine Bluffs. She was Aunt Iva's daughter. This goes back to the Reddens. They came from Ireland to Snowhills, England. Peter Redden came to the East Coast of Maryland sometime during the 1600s. She also mentioned the McCanes who came to Plymouth, Mass. 1620. Some of them followed the BullTrail to Pennsylvania. Wm.Mccane was in Penn. in 1744. Went on a wilderness trail to Virginia in 1745. Thomas McCane was in the Continental Army with Washington. She mentioned a Henry Fronk who married Melvina Perkins whose father was a brother to Dr IB Perkins,a Denver surgeon. He and another brother, Dr. James Perkins owned St. Luke's Hospital in Denver at one time.

Blacks, free and slave, participated in the Revolution. Crispus Attucks, a free Black tradesman, was the first casualty of the Boston Massacre and of the ensuing American Revolutionary War. 5,000 Blacks, including Prince Hall, fought in the Continental Army. Many fought side by side with White soldiers at the battles of Lexington and Concord and at Bunker Hill. But when George Washington took command in 1775, he barred any further recruitment of Blacks. We were strong then and we are still strong today.

Tipu and Hyder were behind the discovery of world's first iron-cased war rocket (though other types existed even quite earlier) in its more than one avatars, which they used successfully for the first time in 1792 during Anglo-Mysore Wars against East India Company. This rocket was immediate model and inspiration for Britain’s Congreve Rocket (1804), which it used during Napoleonic Wars and War of 1812 in USA (e.g. for bombarding Fort McHenry in 1814, the incident that inspired a Washington lawyer Francis Scott Key, son of a Continental Army officer, to write a poem named "Defence of Fort McHenry" and echoes in the fifth line of the first verse of 'The Star-Spangled Banner,' the national anthem of USA: "And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air." ). It is interesting to note that Key started writing the poem aboard a vessel just eight miles off shore from Fort McHenry, when it was being bombarded by the British rocket vessel HMS Erebus, and completed it at the Indian Queen Hotel.

Today in History: for Feb 23rd 1778 – During the American Revolution: Baron von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania to help to train the Continental Army. 1836 – The Battle of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas. 1847 – During the Mexican-American War: Battle of Buena Vista – In Mexico, American troops under General Zachary Taylor defeat Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna. 1861 – President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after the thwarting of an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland. 1870 – In the United States, post-Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union. 1896 – The Tootsie Roll is invented. 1903 – Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity". 1905 – Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club. 1927 – President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Ra ...

Revolutionary War On June 29, 1775, shortly after the start of the American Revolutionary War, Timothy Murphy and his brother John enlisted in the Northumberland County Riflemen, specifically Captain John Lowdon's Company. Their unit saw action in the Siege of Boston, the Battle of Long Island, and "skirmishing in Westchester".[1] After this, Murphy was promoted to the rank of sergeant in the Continental Army's 12th Pennsylvania Regiment and fought at the battles of Trenton and Princeton. Murphy was an "expert marksman", defined as being "able to hit a seven inch target at 250 yards".[1] In July 1777 this skill led to Murphy joining Daniel Morgan's newly formed "Sharpshooter Corps". Later that year, he was selected as one of 500 handpicked riflemen to go with General Daniel Morgan to Upstate New York to help stop General John Burgoyne and the British Army. As the battles around Saratoga raged, the British, having been pushed back, were being rallied by Brigadier General Simon Fraser. Benedict Arnold rode ...

On This Day In History. Friedrich Wilhelm Rudolf Gerhard August, Freiherr von Steuben, a Prussian military officer, arrives at General George Washington's encampment at Valley Forge on this day in 1778 and commences training soldiers in close-order drill, instilling new confidence and discipline in the demoralized Continental Army. Baron von Steuben, as he is better known, was the son of a military engineer and became a Prussian officer himself at the age of 17. He served with distinction and was quickly promoted from infantry to Frederick the Great's General Staff. In 1763, at age 33 and with the rank of captain, he was discharged for unknown reasons. His title of freiherr, or baron, came with his subsequent post as chamberlain (or palace manager) to the petty court of Hohenzollern-Hechingen in Swabia, or the southwestern Holy Roman Empire, in what is now Baden-Wuerrtemberg. Employed by an indebted prince, von Steuben searched for more lucrative employment in foreign armies. The French minister of war re ...

On this day in 1778 – Baron von Steuben joins the Continental Army at Valley Forge. Steuben did not speak English, but his French was such that he could communicate with some of the officers. Washington’s aide-de-camp, Alexander Hamilton as well as Nathanael Greene were a great help in this area. The two men assisted Steuben in drafting a training program for the soldiers which found approval with the Commander-in-Chief in March. Steuben began with a “model company,� a group of 100 chosen men and trained them…they in turn successively worked outward into each brigade. Steuben’s eclectic personality greatly enhanced his mystique. He trained the soldiers, who at this point were greatly lacking in proper clothing themselves, in full military dress uniform, swearing and yelling at them up and down in German and French. When that was no longer successful, he recruited Captain Benjamin Walker, his French speaking aid to curse at them for him in English. His instructions and methods have a familiar r ...

DONT TREAD ON ME FLAGS- THE GADSDEN FLAG Christopher Gadsden was an American Patriot if ever there was one. He led Sons of Liberty in South Carolina starting in 1765, and was later made a colonel in the Continental Army. In 1775 he was in Philadelphia representing his home state in the Continental Congress. He was also one of three members of the Marine Committee who decided to outfit and man the Alfred and its sister ships. Gadsden and Congress chose a Rhode Island man, Esek Hopkins, as the commander-in-chief of the Navy. The flag that Hopkins used as his personal standard on the Alfred is the one we would now recognize. It's likely that John Paul Jones, as the first lieutenant on the Alfred, ran it up the gaff. It's generally accepted that Hopkins' flag was presented to him by Christopher Gadsden, who felt it was especially important for the commodore to have a distinctive personal standard. Gadsden also presented a copy of this flag to his state legislature in Charleston. This is recorded in the South ...

George Washington – first American president, commander of the Continental Army, president of the Constitutional Convention, and gentleman planter. These were the roles in which Washington exemplified character and leadership, earning the title of “Father of His Country� and a hallowed place in Amer...

“If he does that, he’ll be the greatest man in history,� said George III on learning of George Washington’s plan to quit the army and go home when the war was over. Washington not only did it then, but again after serving as president. George Washington, as portrayed in Ron Chernow’s great biography, turns out to be one of the most unexpectedly lovable characters in American History. His effort to live up to his reputation for rectitude is endearing, but more so his openness to new people and experiences. Born with all the standard prejudices of the Virginia aristocracy, he learned from his military mistakes on the frontier and winning or losing, displayed astonishing sang froid under fire. On arriving outside Boston to take command, he quickly saw through the superficial problems of the New Englanders to the nucleus of a Continental Army. As for so many, the army was the great nationalizing experience for Washington, throwing him in with men of all regions, religions and backgrounds. He came t ...

Perryville History The rich history of the Town of Perryville began in 1608 when Captain John Smith became the first European explorer to navigate the Susquehanna River and visit the area. Perryville was first settled in 1622 when Edward Palmer was granted a patent for a settlement on what is now Garrett Island. In the 1600s, Lord Baltimore granted George Talbot 31,000 acres of land which included the Perryville area. Before incorporation in 1882, Perryville was known as Lower Ferry, circa 1695, Susquehanna, circa 1700s, and finally Perryville was named after Mary Perry, the wife of John Bateman. During the Revolutionary War, Perryville served as a staging area for the Continental Army. Colonel John Rodgers, who operated the ferry and tavern in Perryville, raised the 5th Company of the Maryland Militia. This company became part of the famous Flying Corps and was instrumental during the early stages of the Revolutionary War. Colonel Rodgers' son, John Rodgers, became Commodore of the American Navy and was ...

Cast Mel Gibson as Benjamin Martin: The main protagonist. A veteran of the French and Indian War as the "hero" of the fictional "Fort Wilderness" and widowed father of seven children, Benjamin does what he can to avoid fighting in the Revolutionary War knowing the implications surrounding it. When his oldest son, Gabriel joins up, and his second born son, Thomas is killed, he takes it upon himself to join and fight with the colonial militia. He is nicknamed "The Ghost" by the British. He is based on a composite of historical characters which include Thomas Sumter, Daniel Morgan, Nathanael Greene, Andrew Pickens, and Francis Marion.[4] Heath Ledger as Gabriel Martin: Benjamin's eldest son and child, he decides to join up with the Continental Army against his father's wishes. He is killed during an attack on the Green Dragoons' camp. Joely Richardson as Charlotte Selton: Benjamin's sister-in-law and owner of a plantation. She looks after Benjamin's children while he is fighting. At the end of the film, it s ...

Call me crazy I love my county so much I had put this up. For more than 200 years, the American flag has been the symbol of our nation's strength and unity. It's been a source of pride and inspiration for millions of citizens. And the American Flag has been a prominent icon in our national history. Here are the highlights of its unique past. On January 1, 1776, the Continental Army was reorganized in accordance with a Congressional resolution which placed American forces under George Washington's control. On that New Year's Day the Continental Army was laying siege to Boston which had been taken over by the British Army. Washington ordered the Grand Union flag hoisted above his base at Prospect Hill. It had 13 alternate red and white stripes and the British Union Jack in the upper left-hand corner (the canton). In May of 1776, Betsy Ross reported that she sewed the first American flag. On June 14, 1777, in order to establish an official flag for the new nation, the Continental Congress passed the first Fl ...

Gadsden's flag In fall 1775, the United States Navy was established by Commander in Chief of all Continental Forces, General George Washington, before Esek Hopkins was named Commodore of the Navy, with seven ships, often called "Washington Cruisers", that flew the simple triangle shaped green tree with a trunk, the "Liberty Tree Flag" with the motto "Appeal to Heaven" according to the 20 October 1775 letter of Washington's aide Colonel Joseph Reed, that is in the Library of Congress. Those first ships were used to intercept incoming British ships carrying war supplies to the British troops in the colonies to both deprive the supplies to the British and to supply to the Continental Army. One ship captured by Captain John Manley had 30,000 pairs of shoes on it, but the admiralty agent demanded his 2 1/2 per cent commission before he would release the cargo for Washington's army, so many soldiers marched barefoot in the snow. To aid in this, the Second Continental Congress authorized the mustering of five co ...

he birth of the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps [The seal from a 1778 $20 bill from Georgia. The financial backing for these bills was property seized from loyalists. The motto reads "Nemo me impune lacesset," i.e. "No one will provoke me with impunity."] By 1775, the snake symbol wasn't just being printed in newspapers. It was appearing all over the colonies ... on uniform buttons ... on paper money ... and of course, on banners and flags. The snake symbol morphed quite a bit during its rapid, widespread adoption. It wasn't cut up into pieces anymore. And it was usually shown as an American timber rattlesnake, not a generic serpent. We don't know for certain where, when, or by whom the familiar coiled rattlesnake was first used with the warning "Don't Tread on Me." We do know when it first entered the history books. In the fall of 1775, the British were occupying Boston and the young Continental Army was holed up in Cambridge, woefully short on arms and ammunition. At the Battle of Bunker Hill, Washi ...

A broad variety of weapons were used throughout the American Revolution. While some were well-established weapons from previous wars, others were more experimental in nature and did not gain prominence until much later in history. If you are interested in adding an authentic weapon to your American Revolution collection, check out our auction listings. Flintlock MusketsMuskets - The most commonly used firearm during the Revolutionary War was the muzzle-loaded musket. The musket was the primary weapon for thousands of British and Continental Army soldiers. Revolutionary War muskets were commonly equipped with bayonets, which were useful against cavalry and in close combat. America's ability to arm its force with flintlock muskets as they mobilized was a critical challenge early in the war. Muskets used in the Revolutionary War included the Brown Bess, the Charleville, and the Kentucky long rifle. Cannons - The cannon was a highly effective weapon throughout the Revolutionary War and was key to the America ...

I get caught up in the political rants at times. I will admit I'm scared. The news is never good but of late it's been far worse than usual. But then I remember the history of our great nation. America has been counted out on numerous occasions only to pull together and emerge stronger than ever. We survived Pearl Harbor and the second world war. We got through the great depression and the 1929 stock market crash. I'm proud to say I had numerous ancestors that fought in the Union Army during the Civil War. As unlikely as it may be we emerged stronger. Sadly it took another hundred years for true equality to even be considered. But over time we got there. Another of my ancestors had his military discharge signed by General of the Continental Army, George Washington. The founding fathers were considered a joke by their enemy. After all at that time England was one of the most powerful nations on earth. America didn't even exist. But they took a stand for what they believed in the face of almost certain anni ...

It is Presidents' day, so in honor I thought I would share a painting of George Washington that hangs inside Bidwell mansion and some fun presidential trivia: George Washington was the only President to attain the rank of six-star general. George Washington commanded the Continental Army as a four-star general but was promoted post humously to the position of six-star “General of the Armies of Congress� by order of Jimmy Carter, who felt America’s first president should also be America’s highest military official. Additional Presidential trivia is General John Bidwell, the founder of Chico, ran for President of The United States as a prohibitionist in 1892, but he lost. President Andrew Johnson and future President Ulysses S. Grant were guests at John and Annie’s wedding. Some of the guests who visited Bidwell Mansion were President Rutherford B. Hayes, General William T. Sherman, Susan B. Anthony, Frances Willard, Governor Leland Stanford, John Muir, Joseph Dalton Hooker and Asa Gray. There’s ...

Fun President's day fact, George Washington visited Worcester, MA twice, the first time was in 1775, when he had taken command of the Continental Army in Boston. Other Presidents who have been in Worcester included John Adams and Abraham Lincoln.

“Where are America’s Fighting Preachers?�   Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:1 “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:� In 1775, the Lutheran pastor John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg concluded a sermon with this declaration: “In the language of the Holy writ, there is a time for all things. There is a time to preach and a time to fight. And now is the time to fight.� He then threw off his clerical robes to reveal the uniform of a Revolutionary Army Officer. That afternoon, at the head of three hundred men, he marched off to join General Washington’s troops and became colonel of the 8th Regiment. Ministers turned the colonial resistance into a righteous cause not only from the pulpit, but also in state legislatures and on the battlefield where they served as every level in the conflict, from military chaplins to taking up arms and leading troops into battle. Ultimately, the Continental Army captured two key British armies at Saratoga in 1777 and Yorktown in 17 ...

This day in History... 15th of February... among other things : Galio was born... Galileo Galilei ... 15 February 1564. He was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations and support for Copernicanism. Galileo has been called the "father of modern observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of science", and "the Father of Modern Science". From Halifax, Canada, on this day in 1776, Governor Francis Legge reports to British headquarters in London that traitorous elements in Cumberland, Nova Scotia, have contacted American General George Washington. Washington received a letter from the Nova Scotians, in which they expressed their sympathy for the American cause, on February 8. They invited General Washington and the Continental Army to invade Nova Scotia at his earliest possible convenience. Feb 15, 1898: A massi ...

Mark your calendars! Saturday, May 4 at 11:00 I will be leading another tour of battlefield events that occurred at Historic New Bridge Landing, in River Edge, New Jersey. The featured topic this year will be the 1780 encampment and forage of the Continental Army at Steenrapie. George Washington and all his senior generals met at the Steuben House that September to determine the course of action for the remainder of the campaign. Washington had amassed an army of 13,000 men in Bergen County, only awaiting the arrival of 10,000 French troops and a large fleet to drive the British from New York City. Only half the French troops arrived, and those that did were too sick at Newport, Rhode Island to be of any use. That, coupled with a real scarcity of provisions, meant that not only was the army unable to attack New York City, it was on the point of starvation. Troops deserted by the dozen; morale sank, and the army took to plundering the inhabitants of Bergen County, as clearly shown by this letter fro ...

Fit for the Military I would like to dedicate this work to a true samurai and warrior at heart. Without Chris you would not be reading this work. I am forever grateful and honored to have such a companion in life such as my brother who understands what it means to "Get up on the Hydra's back." 1.) A saga of heroic legacies During the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783, George Washington wrote a letter to address the Continental Army before the Battle of Long Island (27, August, 1776). It reads " The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen of slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call there own; whether there houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance or ...

I also told this story, left out of our textbooks...Washington refused to let Af. Amer. Fight in the continental army until 1777.

read through the entire thing. February 5: Peyton Manning does everything including playing in the Super Bowl Day 1678 - Roman king farted on trees. 406 - Peyton Manning sacked by the Central Asian Huns in Super Bowl -MDLXI... wait, that was the Romans... my bad. 1066 - Peyton Manning, king of Normandy, conquers England. 1152 - Peyton Manning almost makes it to Super Bowl -DCCCXV but he loses the AFC Championship after getting sacked five times by the Frankfurt Galaxy's linebacker Frederick Barbarossa. 1215 - Peyton Manning thinks up concept of Magna Carta. 1492 - Peyton Manning sails the ocean blue. 1588 - Peyton Manning defeats the Spanish Armada. 1688 - Peyton Manning takes power in England after the Glorious Revolution. Indianapolis Colts QB William of Orange offers to trade jobs with him. Peyton accepts. 1776 - Peyton Manning leads the Continental Army across the Delaware River in an assault on Trenton, NJ. 1777 - Peyton Manning's child is born to his female slave Sally Hemmings. 1788 - Peyton Mannin ...

Pvt. Daniel Granger, 13 years old, stands sentry on a wintry night during the siege of Boston:

I kinda feel bad for the continental army in the civil war. Even though the Union was like .. the good guys I guess.

Col. Richard HAMPTON (1733-1804),born in Filey, Yorkshire was a British Army officer in the West Indies. He resigned his commission and went to America, where he joined the Continental Army. Washington directed him to confiscate all boats along the Delaware River. They were waiting at Trenton, NJ for Washington's Army. After the war, Hampton purchased land once owned by the traitor, Benedict Arnold along the Hudson River, where he died in 1804.

Approx. 5,000 African Americans fought for the Continental Army in the

When you're a doctor with the Continental Army, you don't see patients one by one but by the barn full

The original Continental Army did not fall into formation & almost died out. If you don't understand this is war.

Bridgeport is a borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 18 miles (29 km) north of Philadelphia on the Schuylkill River. The old-time industries were paper, flour, cotton, and woolen mills, steel works, brickyards, etc. Bridgeport is six miles (10 km) east of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. In 1777, during the American Revolutionary War, General George Washington and the Continental Army passed through Bridgeport on their way to their winter encampment in Valley Forge. 3,097 people lived in Bridgeport in 1900; 3,860 in 1910; and 5,904 in 1940. The population was 4,554 at the 2010 census.

The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799. John C. Fitzpatrick, Editor. [Note 76: Commissary General of Purchases of the Continental Army.] Head Quarters, Valley Forge, February 7, 1778. Sir: The occasional deficiencies in the Article of Provisions, which we have often severely felt, seem now on the point of resolving themselves into this fatal Crisis, total want and a dissolution of the Army. Mr. Blaine informes me, in the most decisive terms, that he has not the least prospect of answering the demands of the Army, within his district, more than a month longer, at the extremity. The expectations, he has from other Quarters, appear to be altogether vague and precarious; and from any thing I can see, we have every reason to apprehend the most ruinous consequences. The spirit of desertion among the Soldiery, never before rose to such a threatening height, as at the present time. The murmurs on account of Provisions are become universal, and what may ensue, if a better ...

One of the huge criticisms of the Continental Army by the Brits was that instead of wearing bright red they wore brown and hid behind trees.

just like the Continental army needs Gen B Arnold

Happy Humpday, Patriots & Prognosticators."Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."- George Washington to the Continental Army.

Yet more reports of firearms accidents from the Continental Army and early republic's western expeditions:

Could be our next prez or leader of the 2nd continental army We'll just have to see lol

I served as a commander-in-chief of the continental army during the American Revolutionary War.

When New Yorkers toppled a leaden statue of George III, women melted it down and turned it into bullets for the Continental Army.

Why was George Washington made General of the Continental army?

to As Benedict Arnold was to Continental Army. Too obvious?

Palisades Interstate Park Commission New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site Celebrate Washington's Birthday: February 16th- 18th Following the capture of British forces by the allied armies of France and America, at Yorktown, Virginia, in the fall of 1781, the northern Continental Army returned to the Hudson Highlands. The destruction of the principal British field army in the south broke England's will to continue the struggle. In the fall of 1782, near New Windsor, 7,500 Continental Army soldiers built a city of 600 log huts. Along with some of their family members, they braved the winter and kept a wary eye on the 12,000 British troops in New York City, just 60 miles away. During the winter of 1782-83, the soldiers of the northern Continental Army anxiously waited, in New Windsor, for news of the peace treaty. Though peace might be announced, Washington still ordered his soldiers to train for battle. On Saturday February 16 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, Sunday February 17 1:00 to 4:00 PM and Monday February ...

IT is what it is, it says what it says, again, militia were American people backing up Continental Army=Americans.

This Day in History February 4 In 1789 George Washington of Virginia the commander of the Continental Army during ...

In one of his first acts as the Commander of the Continental Army, George Washington gave a quart of beer in daily rations for his troops

Singing Seven Nation Army after a touchdown? How continental.

In this sleepy town during the Revolutionary War, a 19-year-old Continental Army soldier committed a murder so gruesome the local historian who unearthed his treachery still mourns the long-dead victims. At just about midnight on Feb. 3, 1780, Barnett Davenport -- horse thief, robber and deserter -...

From its natural resources and one continental army that France, Germany, and the US would be dead broke and therefore fall

Blooper of the Patriot: a guy who shot himself after finding his family dead is seen marching with the Continental army in the last scene

George Washington and the Continental Army didn't suffer and freeze to death at Valley Forge for the privilege...

At Mckonkey's Ferry, before the continental army crossing, Jocko was designated 2 hold the General's horse & light the path back 2 the camp.

Despite what we learned in grade school, the Continental Army & their European allies won the Revolution, not militias.

The Militia The Militia: Americans then and now have had a romantic attachment to the citizen militia, epitomized by the Massachusetts “minutemen.� The importance of the militia as both a bulwark against tyranny and a line of national defense was, of course, famously the backdrop for the Second Amendment and other militia-related clauses in the Constitution (including allowing Congress to arm them and the President to command them at need “to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions�). Yet it was ultimately the Continental Army, not the militia, that had to do the bulk of the work needed to win the war. Nonetheless, the story of the American victory cannot be told without the militia. Massachusetts: The militia’s finest hour came at the beginning, before there was a Continental Army: Concord and Bunker Hill. At Concord, in April 1775, the sudden appearance of the Massachusetts militia in significant force, firing largely from behind the cover of trees and stone w ...

Full on army camo paint job on a Bentley Continental GT - only in Wilmslow!

You might be a history nerd if you asked for a Continental Army flag for your birthday

I'm a distant cousin of that guy in the statue. John Parker. Captain in Continental Army. Not a civilian.

Yes, Nathan Hale, a young soldier in the Continental Army volunteered to go on INTEL Mission NYC, was captured and hanged RT!

After much historical research, it is time for a United States History lesson. In 1775, the Continental Congress authorized the formation of the Continental Army, as well as the Continental Navy. What many people don't know, is that after the Revolutionary War, the Army and Navy were disbanded. When Constitution was ratified in 1787, there was not a US Army or Navy. There was one Regular Army Regiment to guard the Frontier, but the Nations ground force consisted of irregular militia provided by each State but was not under National Command. Because of this irregular militia and a lack of a standing Army is the reason there is the Second Amendment, the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, and form an Organized Militia in the event of War or Civil Unrest. The US Army was reformed in 1791 and has remained in place since then. The US Navy was reformed in 1794 with 20 Frigates commisioned as the Fleet. Historically the US Army, often with US Marines in support, have been used to defuse Civil Unrest. The first being th ...

Whos trynna join the continental army for this snowball/ airsoft war tomorrow?

Stirring words from Thomas Paine regarding the Continental Army

we've never talked before so I feel awkward but Baron Von Steuben trained the continental army for 6 months there

Dead at her comparing the Continental Army to the Atlanta Falcons

By 1779, as many as one in seven people in the Continental Army were black.

Watching the Patriot and I wonder if it's wired to like the clothing of that time period, like the Continental army uniform.

Seriously, there was a bunch of Redcoats being forced to dig their own graves by a bunch of Continental Army troops

why yes, I can tell you why the Continental Army used muskets instead of rifles.

named Nathanael Greene rose from a lowest-ranked private to a general in the Continental Army to help win our Independence.

Continental Army did not have bushmasters !!! Magazines with dozens of rounds ?? NOPE !

I don't think everybody had cannons like the continental army either

My government teacher made me get up and start marching with him like we were in the Continental Army. I was SO EMBARRASSED.

as of 1779 only one out seven people in the Continental Army were African American.

Wayne Lapierre travels back in time to arm George Washington & the Continental army with assault riffles. -

In the retreat from NYC, the Continental Army tries to hold back the Brits with breastworks of cornstalks and dirt. Yeah, that should work!

if you listen closely, the 2nd Continental Army is forming.

Yes. But by todays standards, a milita requires a constitutional charter like the Continental Army and Navy did circa 1770

The largest Army lodging center in the Continental U.S. is now open at Fort Lee, Virginia. We go for a tour and...

spy for the Continental army commander General Lafayette. James soon became a servant to British general Lord Cornwallis, who asked him to

Learn Our History Today: On January 27, 1776, during the American Revolution, Colonel Henry Knox and his “noble train of artillery� arrived in Cambridge, Massachusetts after journeying hundreds of miles from Ft. Ticonderoga, New York. Back in May of 1775, Patriots Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold had seized the British held Fort Ticonderoga in upstate New York. Along with the fort, dozens of cannon were captured, which upon taking command of the newly formed Continental Army, George Washington set about acquiring for his men who were currently laying siege to British held Boston. The man Washington picked to transport the cannons to Boston was 25 year old bookseller Henry Knox, who had no real military training but had spent countless hours reading and studying the subject. Upon giving Knox the job of retrieving the cannon, Washington wrote to him that "no trouble or expense must be spared to obtain them.� When he arrived at Ticonderoga in December, he quickly set about cataloguing the equipment he . ...

IRONY: report out of the United States Military Academy at West Point, first occupied by the Continental Army in...

From Volume 5, Issue Number 38 of EIR Online, Published Sept.19, 2006 This Week in American History September 19 — 25, 1776 Nathan Hale and John Andre: Two Cases of Military Justice After Gen. George Washington evacuated his Continental Army troops from their hopeless position on Brooklyn Heights during the wee hours of Aug. 29, 1776, the Americans still faced an overwhelmingly superior British and Hessian land and sea force, determined to possess New York City and its ample harbor. During the early weeks of September, as the British maneuvered to capture Manhattan Island, Washington moved his forces northward on the island and encamped on the Harlem Plains, just north of, what is today, 125th Street. On Sept. 15, the British Army, with naval support on both the Hudson and East Rivers, occupied southern Manhattan and halted at what is now 42nd Street. Generals Howe and Clinton ensconced themselves in the Beekman mansion on Murray Hill, and sent an expedition northward the next day to probe for the Ameri ...

Liberty Army USA is a non-violent, political movement modeled on the original Continental Army to defend freedom and attack tyranny.

that James Hogun, a general in the Continental Army, asked to be held as a POW after the Siege of...

Founding Father and Continental Army Surgeon General predicted the medical tyranny of today

The Bowies effectively controlled the Patuxent river and served in the legislature and in the Continental army

I've officially seen every branch of the US military. Including the fake ones like the Continental Army.

Crowd going crazy for the Continental Army re-enactors! Later drunken Continentl Army guys attempt to storm the British Embassy.

Okay, I get the Continental Army in Blue. But what's up with the Red Coats? That's the British Army.

I Think I saw .marching in Continental Army garb.

Always see army recruiters at 74th & Roosevelt but never at 71st & Continental

Today in NJ history: On January 20, 1781, about 300 soldiers from the NJ Line of the Continental Army mutinied at...

More interesting question about this game: who would win an army of 10,000 trained ravens or the Continental Army?

'lol' says napoleon as his army marches across continental Europe. 'rofl' observes alexander I as scorched earth & ice wind claimed millions

Don't tell 'em that blacks fought in the Revolutionary War with the Continental Army and received honors and pensions. Shhh..

you should know continental army was disbanded after the war. Replaced by state militias

It was called the Continental Army..I sent you the link, but you should have remembered from the 7th grade...

Upon request here is a piece of history that is not well known about the Jewish Community of America in the Revolutionary era. General Washington's financial advisor and assistant was a Jewish man by the name of Hyam Salomon. During the cold winter months at Valley Forge when American soldiers were freezing and running out of food, it was Hyam who marshaled all the Jews in America and Europe to provide money in relief aid to these stranded American troops and turned the course of history. Without this help, Washington's Continental Army, and the fate of the American Colonies would have perished before they could have defeated the British. He helped raise approximately 300,000$ which at that time was a Tremendous amount of money. After the war Washington went to Solomon to thank him and offer a reward. Solomon just asked to show honor towards the Jewish people. In 1893, a bill was presented before the 52nd Congress ordering a gold medal struck off in recognition of Salomon's contributions to the United Sta ...

Because the Continental Army was disbanded after the Revolutionary War.

Washington called the militia "intractable" and noted that they frequently shot each other. That's why we had the Continental Army.

Exactly right JD! The continental army by West Points view are right wing extremists. The foundation for West Point.NEW YORK!!

duh did the continental army cross the Delaware wearing tshirts? Can't wait for AFC NFC championship

I once had a professor argue that the 1st Continental Army was sort of a Guerilla force. Would you say that is fair?

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If you to actually study the revolutionary war at length, you would find the term "militia" in 1776-1789, was used to refer to individual citizens, who were NOT part of the Continental Army or any organized army or navy. Frequently, these individual citizens fought with the regular army, but at no time were they considered part of the army and were free to come and go as they pleased. For a soldier to do so would have been considered abandoning a post, and punishable by death as Washington actually did to a few of his soldiers at one time. Furthermore, the 2nd Amendment only uses the term "militia" as a justification for the "Right of the People" (NOT armies) to keep and bear arms. Finally, our Founding Fathers wrote into the superseding law of the land that the right of the PEOPLE shall NOT be INFRINGED. No matter how you try to misconstrue the Constitution, if you read the writings of the men who wrote the Constitution, they explain in great depth that the 2nd Amendment refers to every civilian having a ...

If you ever get discouraged in this battle, read an account of what the Continental Army endured at Valley Forge & Yorktown.

Food for thought; George Washington and the rag tag Continental Army didn't starve and freeze to death at Valley...

Fort Lee Lodge, The Army's Largest Lodging Facility in the Continental United States, is now Open for Business.

Ahah nah jk on the last one he led the continental army though.

He sucked every single one of the soldiers *** in the continental army

This was a man who voluntarily surrendered control of the victorious Continental Army to Congress rather than claiming the mantle of King (as most Americans wanted him to do after the Revolution). I cannot think of another man who would have done the same. Extraordinary.

“…These are the times that try men’s souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country: but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like *** is not easily conquered. Yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.� – Thomas Paine, 1776 April 19,1775 – The first shots of the Revolutionary War are fired at Lexington, Massachusetts. Word spreads through the east and thousands volunteer for the Continental Army. The British march to Concord, Massachusetts where they are picked apart by snipers. April 23, 1775 – The Provincial Congress of Massachusetts orders the mobilization of 13,600 troops. Thousands of men from throughout the colonies descend upon Boston to partake in its defense. May 10, 1775 – The Second Continental Congress meets at Philadelphia. The Continental Army is officially formed and George Washington is named Commander-in-Chief. . ...

“OWNING GUNS PROTECTS US FROM TYRANNY� By: Rev. Joseph Mauriello Saturday January 12, 2013 5:16 AM I read with interest the Friday letter from Lee H. Lybarger, who asked, “When has it ever been possible for unorganized, armed individuals to overthrow their oppressors?� To prove the point, Lybarger mentions Gen. George Washington. Before the American Revolution we were not a nation, and so did not have a standing army. As a result, members of the Continental Army, from George Washington down to the lowest private, were citizen-soldiers who grabbed their weapons and ran to answer their nation’s call.Even still, the regular army made up a very small percentage of those who fought for America. Most were minutemen, men who fought one day and then were back home the next. And people back then did not have only muskets. They had rifles, flintlock pistols, rifled pistols, cannons, mortars, grenades, grapeshot, shrapnel bombs, swords, bayonets, lances, primitive land mines and even submarines. When Franc ...

On this date, January 15th, in 1780, some 2,700 soldiers of the Continental Army, joined by New Jersey Militia, including some from Bergen County, crossed over on the ice from New Jersey to Staten Island in an ill-conceived attempt to capture the British garrison. While the attackers certainly outnumbered the defenders, the intense cold and snow drafting to several feet proved far more dangerous than British bullets to the United States troops under General Lord Stirling. While there was no great battle fought, it did pit Bergen County residents against each other for one of the few times outside of Bergen County, as rebel militiamen squared off against their old Loyalist neighbors of the 4th Battalion, New Jersey Volunteers, stationed at Decker's Ferry, near the modern Bayonne Bridge. One of the participants of that battle was 26 year-old Lieutenant George G. Ryerson of Saddle River Township. Ryersons from Bergen fought on both sides during the Revolution. This militia officer would remember the eve ...

Born 1741: General and traitor Benedict Arnold, in Norwich, CT, who betrayed the Continental Army in 1780.

in at (1/13/2010)... "We all probably remember the history lessons during our elementary school years about the ill-fed, ill-equipped, and ill-dressed Continental Army retreating to Valley Forge for the winter encampment. We also remember that that winter was one of the most severe in a number of years. All of this paints a miserable picture. But that is not all! About the time that encampment started, a Prussian officer, Baron von Steuben, arrived on the scene. He had been on the Prussian Army staff and knew about military training. He was given the assignment to *** the training needs of the troops. This he did immediately and started developing the discipline and bayonet skills that would make a difference. He also reorganized the camp so that it promoted good sanitary practices and avoided disease." Check out my blog post at —

The events of this day include several related to the achievements of women and minority groups. It is also the day of several patriotic events of pride and/or challenge related to the winter encampment of the Continental Army troops in Valley Forge during the severe cold of 1778. And it is the day ...

If I was a very rich man like Romney, Trump, Berkshire Hathaway Trust, etc., I can/would support a Continental Army. Think.

Had B. Kelly been in charge of the Continental Army, he would have defected to the British shortly after the New York/New Jersey campaign.

Yesterday, January 11 Grandson of Princeton president Jonathan Edwards, he could read at age 4 and entered Yale at 13. He was a chaplain in the Continental Army until his father died, when, as the eldest of 13, he worked the family farm to pay off debts. He was in Massachusetts' first State Legislature. This was Timothy Dwight IV, who was Yale's 4th president, 1795 to 1817. In 22 years he created Yale's Departments of Chemistry, Geology, Law, and Medicine. He founded Andover Theological Seminary. He pioneered women's education, and was critical of slavery and encroachment on Indian lands. During his term, Yale grew from 110 to 313 students, with one of his students, Samuel Morse, inventing the telegraph. Originally a Puritan college, students had begun to be enticed by "French infidelity" and the deistic "cult of reason." Dwight met with students and answered their questions on faith. By the time of his death, JANUARY 11, 1817, not only were a third of the graduates professing Christians, but 30 entered t ...

A lot of ppl are unaware that the Continental Army was DISBANDED after the RevWar. Heres a good article on the history

Casimir Pulaski Day honors Continental Army general: Drawing of Casimir Pulaski from Flickr. Every day on the ca...

me too, he should've been the leader of the continental army, and the one to accept Cornwallis' sword upon surrender.

Soldier and Pioneer: a Biographical Sketch of Richard C. Anderson of the Continental Army

France has begun a military operation to help the Malian army fight against Islamist in northern Mali-Report.

George Washington lead the Continental army against the red coats just so he would not have to hear news about the British royal family

Out of this kind of chaos, soldiers of the Continental Army forged a victory over professional British and German...

check history. The continental army had little respect for the militia but made that part of 2nd am. Just a slowing force

-mine too. I just remind them that without the Continental Army, the militia would never have defeated the British.

No it wouldn't have. The British won just about every battle - including against Continental army (except the last one).

I suppose thinks the arms the Continental Army had were furnished by the Congress too.

Not asking for 12 month enlistments in the Continental Army. Just a couple of hours out in the streets a week

History for Today January 10 1776 - Thomas Paine's Common Sense, which greatly influenced the authors of the Declaration of Independence, was published. It sold an estimated 120,000 copies in the first three months and 500,000 in the first year, going through twenty-five editions in the first year alone. Paine donated his royalties from Common Sense to George Washington's Continental Army, saying: “As my wish was to serve an oppressed people, and assist in a just and good cause, I conceived that the honor of it would be promoted by my declining to make even the usual profits of an author.� 1870 - John D. Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil in Ohio. Standard Oil was the largest oil refiner in the world that operated as a major company trust and was one of the world's first and largest multinational corporations until it was broken up by the United States Supreme Court in 1911. In that landmark Supreme Court case, Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, the court ruled that Standard Oil must ...

they had the state of the art for the time. The Continental Army cannons they initially used were privately owned.

Want to know what the Continental Army was up to during the Valley Forge encampment day by day?

it was the militia that won the last war for America against the English...NOT the continental army...so yep, I agree with you.

Today in 1776 soldiers in the Continental Army began to be allowed to send letters at no cost, provided their officers signed them.

O.M.G! As the descendant of a soldier in the Continental army, I find this highly offensive!

1st Am Revolution, patriots formed the Continental Army. In the 2nd Revolution, we form the Constitutional Army of the Republic!

, Aloha - 2nd Amend.arms militias - groups of self-armed citizens became core of Continental Army that defeated King George

We have always had an Army since the Continental Army that has required volunteer service until the draft was enacted in 1917.

of the revolutionary war. As I said before the Continental Congress was charged with raising an army in the event of a war

the continental army was actually raised well before the articles Of confederations was ratified. During the first years

Fourteen Senior officers of Nigerian Army get promotion

Four of them are managed by We are proud of our SA army! And remember: 2 more in la pomme, continental team from France

Henley beach with the family and the zio's and zia's. brought enough food, smallgoods and continental bread to feed an army

there's a Continental Army colonel (a relative) buried in the Ridgefield cemetery. And they talk about officer inflation now.

whats the next wrap your geting on the GT continental

Jan 6-1777 General George Washington marches to Morristown, New Jersey where he sets up winter headquarters for the Continental Army.

“America! Live Free Or Die Trying!� ~ The Rights Of The People To Keep & Bear Arms Shall NOT Be Infringed! PERIOD! by Chad Miller How many of us today can truly imagine the struggles, the hardships, and the living conditions of those first Americans in their fight for Independence against what was (at the time 237 years ago) the most formidably powerful military force in the world represented in the standing army of Great Britain? The struggles and hardships not withstanding, the living conditions alone (by today's demanding standards), would be regarded as no less than squalid and unimaginable! Provisions and resources were scarce, the ravages of disease bountiful, and consequential dissent among the ranks of this homogeneous collection of militia citizen-soldiers flourished as a result. Yet under the guidance and resolute leadership of General George Washington, against and despite the disparity of overwhelming odds, America's Continental Army persevered and achieved victory towards securing Indepen ...

Today in 1777: The Continental army, under George Washington, encamps for the winter at Morristown, New Jersey.

Programs For Valley Forge Clarified A riveting, personal look at one of our country's first heroes in the second captivating novel of the George Washington series by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen, the New York Times bestselling authors of To Try Men's Souls It’s the winter of 1777, a year after Washington’s triumphant surprise attack on Trenton, and the battered, demoralized Continental Army retreats from Philadelphia. At Valley Forge, they discover that their requests for supplies have been ignored by Congress. With no other options, for weeks the army freezes under tents in the bitter cold. The men are on the point of collapse, while in Philadelphia the British live in luxury. In spite of the suffering, Washington endures, joined by a volunteer from Germany, Baron Friederich von Steuben. With precious little time, von Steuben begins recasting the army as a professional corps capable of facing the British head-on—something it has never accomplished before—in the process changing the ...

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Can't resist posting this insightful quote by one of our founding fathers. Worth reading and heeding: Subject: An American Minute - January 4, 2013 - Called the “Father of American Medicine,� he signed the Declaration of Independence, was Surgeon General of the Continental Army, and a staff member of the Pennsylvania Hospital, where he opened the first free medical clinic. His name was Benjamin Rush, and he was born JANUARY 4, 1745. He founded the Philadelphia Bible Society, a Sunday School Union and a Society for the Abolition of Slavery. A proponent of public education, Dr. Benjamin Rush wrote his Thoughts Upon the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic, 1786: “I proceed…to inquire what mode of education we shall adopt so as to secure to the state all of the advantages that are to be derived from the proper instruction of the youth; and here I beg leave to remark that the only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid on the foundation of religion. Without this there can be n ...

Gouverneur Morris 1752-1816 The ablest man among the New York delegates in the Continental Congress was Gouverneur Morris. He was born at Morrisania, near the city of New York, on the 31st of January, 1752. Being of a wealthy family, he enjoyed the advantages of a complete classical education. He graduated at King's College, in May, 1768. Immediately after he entered the office of William Smith (the historian of the colony) as a student of law. In 1771, he was licensed to practice law. His proficiency in all his studies was remarkable. He acquired early much reputation as a man of brilliant talents and various promise. His person, address, manners, elocution, were of a superior order. In May, 1775, Mr. Morris was chosen a delegate to the Provincial Congress of New York. In June of that year, he served on a committee with General Montgomery, to confer with General Washington respecting the manner of his introduction to the Congress. He entered with zeal and efficiency into all the questions and proceedings ...

It's time they stopped trying to shred the 2nd ammendment

This game is so unrealistic. Black guy in the Continental Army? I think not

They didn't mean for hunting or just handguns, that means what ever it takes!

...and the Continental Army is up my *** for being on some rooftops?

Effective Public Enemy Plans Revealed When quasi-retired CIA operative W. Cooper's routine of debauchery is interrupted by a request for his help in fencing millions of dollars in gold artifacts, Cooper doesn't see a downside - until, that is, everyone connected to the artifacts begins dying. Crackerjack intelligence analyst Julie Laramie, meanwhile, is sent to a meeting with a former head of the CIA, who tells her the first case of a suicide bombing by an American citizen has occurred within the continental United States. A deadly filovirus was dispersed . . . and the suicide sleeper was not alone. Laramie is told to form her own civilian counterterror unit - and for the role of operative, she has no choice but to call in Cooper. As the army of suicide sleepers and their leader are identified, Cooper must call upon the old-school skills he's tried for so many years to forget . . . and by the time he's dispatched for his most dangerous assignment yet, it may be too late for his mission to matter. Many tha ...

5 January-24 March 1777: With Washington in Morristown, the war continues. The New Jersey militia takes the field and attacks the British and Hessian forces at every opportunity. During these three months, called the Forage War, it's estimated that Gen Howe has lost more then 900 men killed, wounded, captured or MIA. The war will continue until 1783. We must never forget the determination and suffering endured by Washington's troops and the different state militia. The year 1777 will be tough for Washington and his troops with two major defeats and the capture of Philadelphia. From Morristown, Washington will be able to monitor Howe until he moves his army from the New York City area in August and sails south. Enjoy your winter months...we'll pick this up again in August.

Of Governance and Cricket! Dearest Muki, What do you suppose would happen if we gifted our Government and our Armed Forces to our worst enemy? Do you think we will fall apart or prosper as a Nation? Would the people breathe a sigh of relief or would they miss the pack of lies they are fed every passing day, or the stick that is meant to keep them in line lest they start demanding what is rightfully theirs, whatever that may be? Our recorded history, ironically, is funnier than any imagined version! Where, for instance, do you find four Martial Law regimes in a mere sixty -years plus history? Where, for instance, do you find political governments trying to come across dictatorial and Army regimes trying to come across democratic? Or for that matter, people not giving a *** as to which one they are governed by, knowing that no regime will ever put their interests ahead of its own? In truth, it is the only Country, which survives in spite of its Government, political or military! For that, the entire credit ...

My family may be Illuminati?!! NOOO!!! John Dunlap (1746-27 Nov 1812), a Scots-Irishman from Strabane, Co. Tyrone, Ulster, printed the first daily newspaper in the US, the "General Advertiser" , in Philadelphia. He was appointed printer to the Continental Congress in 1773, printing not only the first copy of the Declaration of Independence-at the time called "the Dunlap Broadside" (see above- one of 26 copies still in existence) but also the Constitution of the United States. John founded the 1st Troop of Philadelphia City Calvary in 1774, seeing action in the campaign of 1776-77 at Princeton and Trenton. John also subscribed L4,000 to the American Army in 1780 and owned 98,000 acres in Virginia and the land on which Utica, Ohio now stands. (His wife, Janet Rutherford, was the niece to Benjamin Franklin's wife. The couple were frequent visitors and close friends of the Franklin's. Janet was descended from the Rutherfords of Hunthill, Strabane, Northern Ireland.distant cousins of Sir Walter Scott!...submit ...

American traitor and British Brigadier General Benedict Arnold enjoys his greatest success as a British commander on this day in 1781. Arnold's 1,600 largely Loyalist troops sailed up the James River at the beginning of January, eventually landing in Westover, Virginia. Leaving Westover on the afternoon of January 4, Arnold and his men arrived at the virtually undefended capital city of Richmond the next afternoon. Virginia's governor, Thomas Jefferson, had frantically attempted to prepare the city for attack by moving all arms & other Military Stores records from the city to a foundry five miles outside Richmond. As news of Arnold's unexpectedly rapid approach reached him, Jefferson then tried to orchestrate their removal to Westham, seven miles further north. He was too late--Arnold's men quickly reached and burned the foundry and then proceeded towards Westham, which Jefferson had asked the formidable Prussian military advisor Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben to guard. Finding von Steuben, Arnold ch ...

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The Second American Civil War Has Already Started. It Is the fighting And the battles that are yet to come in the near future. That is to be determined of when and where . As Grandmother Sullivan used to say if your in a fight call out the name Sullivan and join up with that side, you might not be on the winning side but you'll be on the most righteous side in god's eyes. Major General John Thomas Sullivan of the Continental Army and The President of New Hampshire 1775 .Where will you be when the first shot is fired . Share

If this really happened, then that was a good day.

Only a real G will kill a Bentley continental with Army Camo Mario Balotelli is the realest *** :""D

Something we Texan Americans should all take very seriously, as well as the rest of Americans! Don't believe me look at this...

In 1776 a group of well-armed colonists said "no" to their King. Later in 1865 the first really free nation arrived on Earth. Now a new "King" wants to oppress and enslave people. The Free World is free only because WE are free. If We fall there will be a domino effect and there will again be no freedom. Well meaning people simply refuse to accept this.

If George Washington and The Continental Army can do it, I can do it.

Best quote from AC3 yet, "You're going down, like a sack of potatoes." Well played Continental Army, well played.

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