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Daniel Brodhead
Daniel Brodhead
Born
17 October 1736 Marbletown, New York, U.S.
Died
15 November 1809 (aged 73) Milford, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Buried
Milford Cemetery
Allegiance
United States
Service/branch
Continental Army
Years of service
1776–1783
Rank
Brevet Brigadier General
Battles/wars
Battle of Long Island (1776) Battle of Bound Brook (1777) Battle of Brandywine (1777) Battle of Paoli (1777) Battle of Germantown (1777) Fort Laurens (1778–1779) Sullivan Expedition (1779) Coshocton Expedition (1781)
Other work
Society of the Cincinnati Pennsylvania Assembly
Daniel Brodhead (October 17, 1736 – November 15, 1809) was an American military and political leader during the American Revolutionary War and early days of the United States.
the United States. Brodhead was born in Marbletown, New York, the son of DanielBrodhead II and Hester (Wyngart) Brodhead. Brodhead's father moved his family...
DanielBrodhead II (April 20, 1693 - July 22, 1755), was a captain in the Ulster County, New York, militia. He was the first person of European descent...
to the west, a concurrent expedition was undertaken by Colonel DanielBrodhead. Brodhead, who had been given command of the Western Department in March...
DanielBrodhead I (c. 1631 – July 14, 1667) of Yorkshire, England served as a royalist and Captain of Grenadiers of the army of Charles II of England...
the command of Captain DanielBrodhead of the grenadiers. Brodhead and his wife settled in the area; his grandson, DanielBrodhead II, founded Dansbury...
his uncle, Presbyterian clergyman, John Brodhead Romeyn.[1] He was descended from one Captain DanielBrodhead, a soldier from Yorkshire, who, after the...
response, American military officer DanielBrodhead led an expedition out of Fort Pitt and on April 20, Brodhead and his men, including some U.S.-aligned...
second-in-command both died soon afterward. In March 1777 Colonel DanielBrodhead assumed command. The regiment was engaged at the Battles of Bound Brook...
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summer of 1779. Continental Army Western Department commander Colonel DanielBrodhead considered the Iroquoian Mingo to be "the principal distressers of...
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania DanielBrodhead Heiner (1854–1944), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania Arthur Horace...
September 14, 1779, Mason, while at Fort Henry, accompanied Colonel DanielBrodhead and his 8th Pennsylvania Regiment of the Continental Army combined...
DanielBrodhead led an expedition out of Fort Pitt and destroyed Coshocton on April 19, 1781. Surviving residents fled to the north. Colonel Brodhead...
1779, George Washington ordered the Sullivan Campaign, led by Col. DanielBrodhead and General John Sullivan, against the Iroquois nations to "not merely...
106 men behind under the command of Major Frederick Vernon. Colonel DanielBrodhead had replaced McIntosh as commander at Fort Pitt and felt the fort was...
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what is now known as guerrilla warfare became famous. In 1781, Col. DanielBrodhead reached the main Turtle clan village of Gekelmukpechunk, now known...
Continental Army. Generals John Sullivan and James Clinton and Colonel DanielBrodhead, at the head of forty-six hundred men, advanced on the Indians, their...
their homes rather than go on extended campaigns. Furthermore, Colonel DanielBrodhead refused to detach the men because he was staging his own expedition...
when Brigadier General Edward Hand took command. In 1779, Colonel DanielBrodhead led 600 men from Fort Pitt to destroy Seneca villages along the upper...
special assignments and even wrote a letter to his commander, Col. DanielBrodhead, of the Eighth Pennsylvania, commending Samuel for his services. According...