Commanding the Continental Army for six long years of the Revolution, he was the indispensable factor in the ultimate victory.

" After the war, nationalists, especially those who had been active in the Continental Army, complained that the Articles were too weak for an effective government.

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Ridgefield: A British invasion force engages and defeats Continental Army regulars and militia irregulars at Ridgefield, Connecticut.

A troop of students dressed as Continental Army soldiers carry the eponymous log from the sun-dial to the lounge of John Jay Hall, where it is lit amid the singing of seasonal carols.

Initially led by John Haslet, Delaware provided one of the premier regiments in the Continental Army, known as the " Delaware Blues " and nicknamed the " Blue Hen's Chicks.

On June 22, Allen and Seth Warner appeared before Congress in Philadelphia, where they argued for the inclusion of the Green Mountain Boys in the Continental Army.

On May 14, he was breveted a colonel in the Continental Army in " reward of his fortitude, firmness and zeal in the cause of his country, manifested during his long and cruel captivity, as well as on former occasions ," and given military pay of $ 75 per month.

Category: Continental Army officers

Boudinot was commissioned as a colonel in the Continental Army for this work.

Category: Continental Army staff officers

Gerry was elected to serve on the Massachusetts Provincial Congress when the American Revolutionary War broke out, where he used his merchant connections to see that the Continental Army besieging Boston was supplied.

His father John Ross Key was a lawyer, a judge, and an officer in the Continental Army.

* 1778 – American Revolution: Baron von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania to help to train the Continental Army.

George Washington ( –, 1799 ), was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, serving as the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and later as the new republic's first President.

Chosen by the Second Continental Congress in 1775 to be commander-in-chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolution, Washington managed to force the British out of Boston in 1776, but was defeated and almost captured later that year when he lost New York City.

Congress created the Continental Army on June 14, 1775.

Washington taking Control of the Continental Army, 1775.

Washington assumed command of the Continental Army in the field at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in July 1775, during the ongoing siege of Boston.

The Continental Army under Washington engaged the enemy for the first time as an army of the newly independent United States at the Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the entire war.

Washington then retreated across New Jersey ; the future of the Continental Army was in doubt due to expiring enlistments and the string of losses.

On May 2, 1783, the Commander in Chief submitted his Sentiments on a Peace Establishment to the Committee, essentially providing an official Continental Army position.

* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Continental Army is established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United States Army.

John Adams in his diary recalled Harrison as having said that he was so eager to participate in the Continental Congress " he would have come on foot.

Yorke ( The Conversion of Britain c. 600 – 800, 2006 ), speaking of the 5th century, describes the ' Continental Saxons ' ( which then included the Chauci ) as having powerful local families and a dominant military leader.

Based on the Articles of Confederation having been adopted in York by the Second Continental Congress on November 15, 1777, the local government and business community began referring to York in the 1960s as the first capital of the United States of America.

Bedminster Township is noted for having one of the most historic revolutionary war sites in the United States at what is known as the Pluckemin Continental Artillery Cantonment Site, which has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

In a 2000 speech to the American Bar Association, the then party leader, Mary Harney, appeared to express a desire that Ireland become " closer to Boston than Berlin ", adopting US free-market models for economic development, health, education, and other services rather than European Continental models because she believed that the continental countries ( such as Germany and France ), while having more equality had bad economies and high unemployment.

The Orange Tornadoes and Newark Tornadoes were two manifestations of a long-lived professional American football franchise that existed in some form from 1887 to 1971, having played in the National Football League from 1929 to 1930, the American Association from 1936 to 1941, the Atlantic Coast Football League from 1963 to 1964 and 1970 to 1971, and the Continental Football League from 1965 to 1969.

Since the 1978 deregulation of the U. S. airline industry, U. S. carriers increasingly contracted flying to smaller destinations to small regional carriers ; David Messing, a spokesperson with Continental Airlines Holdings in 1991, said that Continental Express was formed because, from a business standpoint, having one subsidiary airline for Continental was preferable to the previous scenario of numerous agreements with various smaller airlines.

Continental Airlines had also been reported as having interest in setting up Canada-U. S. flights from the airport.

It is also the only crown of a British sovereign with eight half-arches, in the style of Continental European crowns, departing from the British tradition of crowns having four half-arches.

On May 29, after having heard additional testimony on the situation in Montreal from James Price, a Montreal merchant, the Second Continental Congress approved the letter.

Of the approximately 65 vessels ( new, converted, chartered, loaned, and captured ) that served at one time or another with the Continental Navy, only 11 survived the war without having been destroyed, sunk, or captured.

In 1990, after having been CEO for Continental and Texas International for 18 years, Lorenzo sold his controlling interest in Continental Airlines to Scandinavian Airlines System ( SAS ), and stepped down from his CEO role to pursue other entrepreneurial and investment ventures.

In the years following the Korean War, X Corps served as a regional headquarters, having administrative, logistical, and training responsibility for both active and Army Reserve units in the northwestern portion of the Continental United States.

He was a delegate to the Continental Congress and a United States Senator from North Carolina, having grown up among the planter elite.

Construction costs on the GTPR escalated, despite having the most favourable crossing of the Continental Divide in North America at Yellowhead Pass.

During this term he signed the Articles of Confederation, having in 1776 authored their first draft while serving in the Continental Congress as a delegate from Pennsylvania.

The Western Continental Margin is a passive margin having six sedimentary basins namely Kutch, Saurashtra, Bombay Offshore, Konkan, Lakshadweep and Kerala.

He was elected the ninth Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina in January 1783, but resigned shortly afterward, having been elected to the Continental Congress.

They played in the Premier Basketball League after having been in the Continental Basketball Association.

The " Insular Celtic hypothesis " is a theory that the Brythonic and Goidelic languages evolved together in those islands, having a common ancestor more recent than any shared with the Continental Celtic languages such as Celtiberian, Gaulish, Galatian and Lepontic, among others, all of which are long extinct.

The name " Grand Union " is contemporary to Reconstruction-era historians, having been first applied to the Continental Colors by George Preble in his 1872 History of the American Flag.