1777 – Day-By-Day America

Another Year of Ups and Downs

The year started out well for the Americans, with a victory at Princeton, New Jersey. During the summer, however, they were unable to stop a major British invasion from Canada, and things looked bleak. On top of that, the British won some major victories in Pennsylvania and occupied Philadelphia. But late in the year, the British forces that had invaded from Canada were forced to surrender, and it looked like France would be ready to openly support the Americans.

January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

January

1
2 – British Retake Trenton
3 – Battle of Princeton
4
5
6 – American army goes into winter quarters in Morristown
7
8
9
10 – British withdraw from most of New Jersey
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25 – The Farce at Fort Independence
26
27
28
29
30
31

February

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9 – Loyalist victory on the Florida border
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29

March

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12 – Congress returns from Baltimore to Philadelphia
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24 – Raid on American supply base in Peekskill
25
26
27
28
29 – A Revolutionary General’s Plan for Crushing the Revolution
30
31

April

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13 – Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26 – American supplies destroyed at Danbury, Connecticut
27 – Battle of Ridgefield
28 – Battle of Compo Hill
29
30

May

1
2
3 – Christopher Ludwick, the Bakermaster General
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 – An ambush gone wrong at Piscataway, New Jersey
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23 – The Sag Harbor Raid
24
25
26
27
28
29 – American army leaves winter quarters
30
31

June

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13 – Enter the Marquis de Lafayette (and Johann Kalb)
14 – A Flag is Born
15
16
17
18 – Invasion from Canada begins
19
20
21
22 – Battle of Brunswick, New Jersey
23
24
25
26 – Battle of Metuchen, New Jersey
27
28
29
30

July

1
2
3
4
5
6 – British recapture Fort Ticonderoga
7 – Battle of Hubbardton
8 – Americans lose Fort Anne
9 – Americans capture British General Richard Prescott
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23 – British forces head for Philadelphia
24
25
26
27 – The murder of Jane McCrea
28
29
30
31 – Lafayette becomes a Major General

August

1
2
3 – Siege of Fort Stanwix, New York
4
5
6 – Herkimer’s defeat at Oriskany, New York
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16 – Battle of Bennington
17
18
19
20
21
22 –
23 – Siege of Fort Stanwix ends
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31 – Attack on Fort Henry, Virginia

September

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11 – Battle of Brandywine; Ezra Stiles is chosen as president of Yale College
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21 – General “No-flint” Grey and the Paoli “Massacre”
22
23
24
25
26 – British troops occupy Philadelphia
27
28
29
30

October

1
2
3
4 – Battle of Germantown, Pennsylvania
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
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21
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