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Brandywine Battlefield Park
Battlefield
The site of the September 11, 1777 Battle of Brandywine — the largest land battle of the Revolutionary War — approximately ten miles northwest of Wilmington. The park preserves the Birmingham Hill area where Cornwallis's flanking force struck the American right, Washington's headquarters building, and Lafayette's quarters.
Visiting Today
Address
1491 Baltimore Pike, Chadds Ford, PA 19317
Connected Events
Aug 1777
Washington Uses Wilmington as Campaign Supply Base
General George Washington
Aug 1777
Howe's Army Lands at Head of Elk
General Sir William Howe
Sep 1777
Battle of Brandywine
General Sir William Howe, Lord Charles Cornwallis, Nathanael Greene, Major General John Sullivan, General George Washington
Sep 1777
Local Knowledge and the Brandywine Flanking Route
Lord Charles Cornwallis
Sep 1777
Lafayette Wounded at Brandywine
Marquis de Lafayette, General George Washington
Oct 1777
American Counterattack at Germantown
General George Washington
Dec 1787