6 events found for 1777
Sybil Ludington, aged 16, allegedly rides 40 miles (64 km) to alert American colonial forces to the approach of British
Continental Army officer Lachlan McIntosh fatally wounds Button Gwinnett, a signer of the United States Declaration of I
American Revolutionary War: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to h
The Second Continental Congress passes the Flag Act of 1777 adopting the Stars and Stripes as the Flag of the United Sta
American Revolutionary War: Siege of Fort Ticonderoga: After a bombardment by British artillery under General John…
American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton.