On this day in 1777, the largest battle of the American War of Independence is fought near Pennsylvania’s Brandywine Creek. Although Washington musters 15,000 troops to take on an equal-sized army of redcoats and Hessians, it’s the King’s forces that prevail. pic.twitter.com/jjRdw8f5zD
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