August Revolutionary Calendar

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From Breeds Hill Institute

August Revolutionary Calendar


August 2 1776:
The 56 members of Congress began to affix their signatures to the engrossed copy of the Declaration of Independence.

August 2 1777:
The Marquis de Lafayette arrives in camp and meets General George Washington.

August 5 1779:
Lieutenant Colonel James DeLancey's New York Loyalists and Patriot William Hull's Connecticut Brigade engage in a civil war for the Bronx in New York.   

August 6 1777:
General Nicholas Herkimer is mortally wounded at the Battle of Oriskany New York.

August 7 1782:
General George Washington, the commander in chief of the Continental Army, creates the 'Badge for Military Merit,' a decoration consisting of a purple, heart-shaped piece of silk, edged with a narrow binding of silver, with the word "Merit" stitched across the face in silver.

August 8 1775:
Captain Daniel Morgan and his Virginia riflemen arrive in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

August 10 1776:
News reached London that the Americans had drafted the Declaration of Independence.

August 13 1781:
Patriot forces under Colonel William Harden and Brigadier General Francis Marion, known as the 'Swamp Fox,' lure British commander Major Thomas Fraser and his 450 soldiers into an ambush at Parker's Ferry South Carolina.

August 13 1781:
3,000 soldiers set sail with the French fleet on their way to aid the Patriot cause.

August 14 1776:
The city of Boston observed the 11th anniversary of the popular resistance that prevented the execution of the Stamp Act there on this day in 1776. The celebration included the erection of a pole at the site of the original 'Liberty Tree.'

August 22 1776:
The British forces under General Howe land at Long Island. This was the largest amphibious assault until World War II's D-Day.

August 27 1776:
General and Admiral Howe defeat Washington's forces in Battle of Brooklyn Heights. New York is lost and the Patriot army barely manages to escape.

Aug 29, 1779:
Continental forces defeat a combined force of Loyalist and Indians at the Battle of Chemung or Newtown, New York.