Battle Of Germantown Research Paper

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The battle of Germantown was a “military conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the thirteen colonies in North America during the American Revolutionary War in 1777-1783” (land of the brave info/battle of Germantown). On October 4, 1777 George Washington lead four different units of American troops to catch the British off guard (Wikipedia). It was on this Saturday morning American troops in the dense fog would be defeated in the battle of Germantown by the British (land of the brave into/battle of Germantown). General Washington knew that the British had split their army into two segments and one was near Germantown. Believing that the British troops would be weaker because of

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