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ID: 1100877
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1100877
Record Type:
administrative
Brandywine Battlefield (historic site)
Coordinates:
Lat: 39 52 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 39.8667
decimal degrees
Long: 075 34 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -75.5667
decimal degrees
Note:
Battlefield on creek of the same name, 10 miles NW of Wilmington; on 11 September 1777, British troops under General Howe defeated Americans under Washington, entering Philadelphia on 27 September.
Names:
Brandywine Battlefield
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Hierarchical Position:
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North and Central America
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United States
(nation) (
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Pennsylvania
(state) (
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Delaware
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Brandywine Battlefield
(historic site) (
P
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Place Types:
historic site (
preferred
,
C
)
battlefield (
H
)
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in 1777
Sources and Contributors:
Brandywine Battlefield..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.........................................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS42040764
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Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
169
Subject:
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[
VP
]
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USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS42040764
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
169
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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