The Battle of Brandywine:
Part 1 of 10
The British...
Many of the 15,000 British troops spent the night in Kennett Square
-- population 2,000 -- unwinding and carousing, while a battle
loomed.
General Howe's flanking strategy was devised two days earlier:
While General Knyphausen attacked at Chadd's Ford, as
Washington expected, Cornwallis would stealthily move north, cross
the Brandywine, and flank Washington's right. [Map and a fuller
explanation]
The Americans...
By the night of September
10th, the American troops were
extended along a six-mile line......
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