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Battle of Germantown
The
Battle of Germantown
, a battle in the
Philadelphia campaign
of the
American Revolutionary War
, was fought on October 4, 1777, at
Germantown
,
Pennsylvania
between the
British Army
led by Sir
William Howe
and the American army under
George Washington
. The British victory in this battle ensured that
Philadelphia
, the capital of the self-proclaimed
United States of America
, would remain in British hands throughout the winter of 1777–1778. Now part of the city of Philadelphia, Germantown was an outlying community in 1777.
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