Battle of Germantown
October 4, 1777 · Germantown
Result British victory
Battle of 4 October 1777 at Germantown, Pennsylvania, between Gen. Sir William Howe's British Army and Gen. George Washington's Continental Army. After Howe seized Philadelphia, Washington sent four columns to converge on the British; in heavy fog the attack collapsed amid friendly fire, repeated assaults on the barricaded Cliveden mansion failed with heavy casualties, and the Americans withdrew.
American
British
Strength and losses
Units
Continental Army
Aaron Burr
Aaron Ogden
Abraham Buford
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander McDougall
Anthony Wayne
Artemas Ward
Arthur St. Clair
Benjamin Lincoln
Casimir Pulaski
Christopher Greene
Daniel Morgan
Edward Hand
George Clinton
George Mathews
Green Clay
Henry Dearborn
Henry Knox
Henry Lee III
Horatio Gates
Hugh Mercer
Israel Putnam
James Clinton
James McHenry
James Monroe
James Wilkinson
James Winchester
James Wood
Jean François Hamtramck
Johann de Kalb
John Armstrong Jr.
John Brooks
John Francis Mercer
John Glover
John Hardin
John Hoskins Stone
John Marshall
John Stark
John Sullivan
John Thomas
Joseph Bloomfield
Joseph Warren
Josiah Harmar
Josiah Tattnall (politician)
Lachlan McIntosh
Levin Winder
Marquis de Lafayette
Morgan Lewis
Nathan Hale
Nathanael Greene
Peleg Wadsworth
Peter Gansevoort
Philip Schuyler
Pierse Long
Richard Butler
Robert Magaw
Samuel Smith
Seth Warner
Tadeusz Kościuszko
Thomas Knowlton
Timothy Pickering
William Barton
William Bradford
William Darke
William Eaton
William Maxwell
William Moultrie
William Prescott
William Sanford Pennington
William Whipple
William Woodford
Benedict Arnold
Charles Lee
George Washington
William Alexander
1st Maryland Regiment
