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    The 1777 Siege of Fort Ticonderoga occurred between the 2nd and 6 July 1777 at Fort Ticonderoga, near the southern end of Lake Champlain in the state...
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    fort were transported to Boston to lift its siege by the British, who evacuated the city in March 1776. The Americans held the fort until June 1777,...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1777. 1777 (MDCCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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    The siege of Fort Mifflin or the siege of Mud Island Fort, which took place from September 26 to November 16, 1777, saw British land batteries commanded...
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    The siege of Fort Stanwix (also known as Fort Schuyler) began on August 2, 1777 and ended on August 22, 1777. Fort Stanwix, at the western end of the Mohawk...
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  • Events from the year 1777 in the United States. President of the Second Continental Congress: John Hancock (until October 29), Henry Laurens (starting November...
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  • Revolutionary War Siege of Fort Henry (1777) – American Revolutionary War Siege of Fort Mifflin (1777) – American Revolutionary War Siege of Pondicherry...
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    January 1783 to 3 November 1783. John Philip De Haas. Continental brigadier general from 21 February 1777 to 3 November 1783. Moses Hazen James Hogun (POW)...
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    captured the fort's small British garrison. The cannons and other armaments at Fort Ticonderoga were later transported to Boston by Colonel Henry Knox in the...
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    had started construction on Fort Carillon in 1755, used it as a launching point for the successful siege of Fort William Henry in 1757. Despite that and...
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    the site. Fort Stanwix is historically significant because of its successful defense by American troops during an August 1777 siege. The fort had been...
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    Saratoga campaign (category 1777 in military history)
    The Saratoga campaign in 1777 was an attempt by the British high command for North America to gain military control of the strategically important Hudson...
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  • (1775–1776) New York and New Jersey campaigns (1776–1777) Saratoga campaign (1777) Philadelphia campaign (1777–1778) Yorktown campaign (1781) Northern theater...
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    "apparently ignored the danger" of de Grasse in 1781. However, Willcox notes that campaign plans Clinton formulated for 1777, 1779 and 1780 were frustrated...
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    Henry Knox (July 25, 1750 – October 25, 1806), a Founding Father of the United States, was a Boston bookseller who became a senior general of the Continental...
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    The British, following the collapse of their northern strategy in late 1777 and their withdrawal from Philadelphia in 1778, shifted their focus to the...
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    in September 1777, Girty now an enemy of the American Colonies, led a failed siege against the Continental troops stationed at Fort Henry with support...
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    British forts. On June 18, after undertaking the month-long siege of Ninety Six, Greene launched an unsuccessful attack on the British fort at Ninety...
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    controversy. Fort Dearborn in Illinois, Dearborn County in Indiana, and the city of Dearborn, Michigan, were named in his honor. Henry Dearborn was born...
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    Hugh Mercer (category 1777 deaths)
    Hugh Mercer (January 16, 1726 – January 12, 1777) was a brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He fought in the...
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    load of gunpowder up the Mississippi and Ohio rivers to Fort Pitt, where it arrived in May 1777. Later, additional supplies were shipped from New Orleans...
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    Timeline of the American Revolution (category 1777 in the United States)
    slavery (July 8) Battle of Fort Anne (July 8) Siege of Fort Stanwix (August 2–23) Battle of Oriskany (August 6) Battle of Machias (1777) (August 13–14) Battle...
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    Anglican minister, and until the elder Patrick's death in 1777 often went as Patrick Henry Jr. Henry attended a local school until about the age of 10. There...
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    that there is an end of British dominion in America." —General Henry Clinton, July 1777 While Burgoyne invaded from the North, Howe led an army of 15,000...
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    campaign of the American Revolutionary War. It was fought on October 4, 1777, at Germantown, Pennsylvania, between the British Army led by Sir William...
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    parties to raid the Kentucky settlements. Henry Hamilton, the British Lieutenant Governor of Canada at Fort Detroit, found willing allies in leaders such...
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    Treaty of Paris in 1763, the need for the fort decreased. While traveling to the Battle of Bennington in 1777, John Stark (then a brigadier general) gathered...
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    In November 1777, Gálvez married Marie Félicité de Saint-Maxent d'Estrehan, the Creole daughter of the French-born Gilbert Antoine de Saint-Maxent and...
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    Washington and the British Army of General Sir William Howe on September 11, 1777, as part of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783). The forces met near...
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    and financier. When Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, Count of Gálvez was appointed Governor of New Orleans in January 1777, he continued and expanded the...
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