" In August 1777, General Sir William Howe led a British army through Delaware on his way to a victory at the Battle of Brandywine and capture of the city of Philadelphia.

At the Battle of Brandywine on September 11, 1777, Howe outmaneuvered Washington, and marched into the American capital at Philadelphia unopposed on September 26.

Washington's army of 11, 000 went into winter quarters at Valley Forge north of Philadelphia in December 1777.

The inquiry took place in late 1779, when Arnold was in military command of Philadelphia and recuperating from serious wounds received in the 1777 Battles of Saratoga.

In 1777, during the American Revolutionary War, the Continental Army under command of George Washington constructed two forts on the Delaware River to block the approach to Philadelphia: Fort Mifflin on the Pennsylvania side and Fort Mercer on the New Jersey side in what is now National Park.

On September 18, 1777, during the American Revolutionary War, a convoy of wagons carrying the Liberty Bell from Philadelphia to Allentown, under the command of Col. Thomas Polk ( Charlotte, North Carolina ), stopped in Quakertown.

East Pikeland was directly involved in the Revolutionary War, especially from 1775 through 1778, and most heavily during the " Philadelphia Campaign " in 1777 and 1778.

After Washington's defeat at the Battle of Brandywine on September 11, 1777, the revolutionary capital of Philadelphia was defenseless, and the city prepared for what was seen as an inevitable British attack.

In late July 1777, after a distressing 34-day journey from Sandy Hook on the coast of New Jersey, a Royal Navy fleet of more than 260 ships carrying some 17, 000 British troops under the command of British General Sir William Howe landed at the head of the Elk River, on the northern end of the Chesapeake Bay near present-day Elkton, Maryland ( then known as Head of Elk ), approximately 40 – 50 miles ( 60 – 80 km ) southwest of Philadelphia.

On September 26, 1777, British forces marched into Philadelphia unopposed.

* Martin, David G., The Philadelphia Campaign: June 1777 – July 1778.

September 11, 1777: Washington's Defeat at Brandywine Dooms Philadelphia.

After the setbacks in New Jersey, Howe in mid-January 1777 proposed operations against Philadelphia that included an overland expedition and a sea-based attack, thinking this might lead to a decisive victory over the Continental Army.

Howe made this house, the Masters-Penn mansion, his headquarters during the 1777 – 78 British occupation of Philadelphia.

In 1777 Admiral Howe provided support to his brother's operation to capture Philadelphia, ferrying Howe's army to a landing point from which they successfully marched and took the city.

* 1777 – British occupation of Philadelphia ( September 26 )

Therefore, Howe decided that he would first capture Philadelphia in the 1777 campaign, before sending any troops to Albany.

This uncertainty is highlighted by a letter sent by Germain to Howe, dated April 2, 1777, in which he approved Howe's plan for Philadelphia, but also stressed that " it will be executed in time for you to co-operate with the army ordered to proceed from Canada and put itself under your command.

On December 4, 1777, word reached Benjamin Franklin at Versailles that Philadelphia had fallen and that Burgoyne had surrendered.

British forces had captured Philadelphia in 1777.

* Martin, David G., The Philadelphia Campaign: June 1777 – July 1778.

Benjamin Chew was Speaker of the Lower House for the Delaware counties ( 1753 – 1758 ); Attorney General and member of the Council of Pennsylvania ( 1754 – 1769 ); Recorder of Philadelphia City ( 1755 – 1774 ); Master of Rolls ( 1755 – 1774 ); Provincial Councillor of Pennsylvania ( 1755 ); Commissioner of Philadelphia ( 1761 ); Register-General of Wills ( 1765 – 1777 ); Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ( 1774 – 1777 ); and Judge and President of the High Court of Errors and Appeals ( 1791 – 1808 ).

* 1777 – Seth Pomeroy, American gunsmith and soldier ( b. 1706 )

* May 20 – Michael Jordan, American gunsmith and soldier ( d. 1777 )

Seth Pomeroy ( May 20, 1706 – February 9, 1777 ) was an American gunsmith and soldier from Northampton, Massachusetts.

* Seth Pomeroy ( 1706 – 1777 ), American gunsmith and soldier

After the financial collapse of the Italian opera company in 1777 due to financial mis-management, Joseph II decided to end the performance of Italian opera, French spoken drama, and ballet.

* June 6 – King Joseph I of Portugal ( d. 1777 )

In the midst of preparations for sending help to France, and in the atmosphere of the first wave of libelles, Holy Roman Emperor Joseph came to call on his sister and brother-in-law on 18 April 1777, the subsequent six-week visit in Versailles a part of the attempt to figure out why their marriage had not been consummated.

Gillispie puts it as early as 1777 when Joseph observed laundry drying over a fire incidentally form pockets that billowed upwards.

Books for younger readers both have historical settings: Joseph Bruchac's The Arrow Over the Door ( 1998 ) ( grades 4-6 ) is set in 1777 ; and Beth Kanell's young adult novel, The Darkness Under the Water ( 2008 ), concerns a young Abenaki-French Canadian girl during the time of the Vermont Eugenics Project, 1931-1936.

However, his first publication, A Chemical Treatise on Air and Fire, was not released until 1777, at which time both Joseph Priestley and Lavoisier had already published their experimental data and conclusions concerning oxygen and the phlogiston theory.

The French minister Vergennes, who met Joseph when he was travelling incognito in 1777, judged him to be " ambitious and despotic.

Thus, he was eager to enforce Austria's claim on Bavaria upon the death of the elector Maximilian Joseph in 1777.

Originally part of the Ulva estate of the MacQuarries until 1777, it was brought to the English-speaking world's attention after a visit by Sir Joseph Banks in August 1772.

Portrait ( 1777 ), oil on canvas, of Joseph Warton ( 1722 – 1800 ) by Sir Joshua Reynolds ( 1723 – 1792 )

William was the father of the Joseph Fry ( 1777 – 1861 ) the tea merchant who married the prison reformer Elizabeth Fry née Gurney ( 1780 – 1845 ).

During the years 1777 and 1778 he was successful in London, one of many Austro-German musicians ( Carl Friedrich Abel, Johann Christian Bach, and in his last years Joseph Haydn would be some other ones ) to be drawn to that metropolis where a capitalist music life, largely independent of courts and nobility, was already in full swing.

* Queen Maria I of Portugal, who succeeded her father Joseph I in 1777

Joseph I (,, 6 June 1714 – 24 February 1777 ), " the Reformer " (), was the King of Portugal and the Algarves from 31 July 1750 until his death.

In about 1777, Joseph Scott ( later Sir Joseph Scott, 1st Baronet Scott of Great Barr ) replaced the old house with a two-storey, nine-bay mansion in the Strawberry Hill Gothic style.

He was Minister of the Kingdom ( the equivalent to a today's prime minister ) in the government of Joseph I of Portugal from 1750 to 1777.

Made Marquess of Pombal in 1770, he effectively ruled Portugal until Joseph I's death in 1777.

Three of his eight sons, Casimir ( 1777 – 1832 ), Scipion ( 1776 – 1821 ) and Joseph ( 1786 – 1866 ) were in the forefront of business and finance during the Bourbon Restoration.

When the Elector of Bavaria Maximilian III Joseph, the last Wittelsbach ruler, died childless in 1777, the land passed to the Electorate of the Palatinate archduke and elector Carl Theodor.

On 30 December 1777, Maximilian Joseph, the last of the junior line of Wittelsbach, died of smallpox, leaving no children.

On June 15, 1777, she married her second husband, mariner Joseph Ashburn.

He was invited to Munich by the musical establishment of the Elector Maximilian III Joseph to compose an opera for the carnival season of 1777 ( Ezio ).

* Joseph I of Portugal ( 1750 – 1777 )