Continental Army

Sub-units 6

• Regiment 1st Rhode Island Regiment
• Army Northern Army (Continental Army)
• Regiment 14th Continental Regiment
• Regiment 1st Maryland Regiment
• Regiment Lee's Legion
• Army Southern Army (Continental Army)

Attached units 2

• January 14, 1776 – April 15, 1780 1st Maryland Regiment
• April 7, 1778 – November 1, 1780 Lee's Legion

People who served 78

George Washington 1775–1783 Benedict Arnold 1775–1780 Charles Lee 1775–1780 William Alexander 1775–present Richard Montgomery 1775 James Moore Brigadier General · 1775–1777 Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben 1778–1783 Philip Schuyler General James Monroe Major John Armstrong Jr. General Alexander Hamilton General Aaron Burr Lieutenant Colonel John Stark Major General Marquis de Lafayette George Clinton Peleg Wadsworth General William Prescott Colonel William Moultrie Major General Daniel Morgan General James McHenry John Marshall Seth Warner Colonel Lachlan McIntosh Brigadier General Henry Knox Major General Horatio Gates Nathanael Greene Major General Samuel Smith Casimir Pulaski General Timothy Pickering General Arthur St. Clair Abraham Buford Christopher Greene Colonel Green Clay Anthony Wayne Joseph Warren Major General Israel Putnam General James Winchester William Bradford Johann de Kalb Major General William Woodford Brigadier General Benjamin Lincoln Major General John Sullivan Major General Henry Dearborn General William Whipple James Wilkinson Peter Gansevoort Major General Tadeusz Kościuszko Lieutenant General Aaron Ogden Hugh Mercer Brigadier General James Clinton Major General Jean François Hamtramck Colonel Artemas Ward Major General John Thomas Major General Josiah Tattnall (politician) William Eaton General Levin Winder John Hoskins Stone William Sanford Pennington Major Joseph Bloomfield Henry Lee III Edward Hand Josiah Harmar John Glover John Hardin Colonel Alexander McDougall Major General Nathan Hale Colonel Pierse Long Colonel Richard Butler Robert Magaw Colonel Thomas Knowlton John Brooks Colonel William Barton William Darke William Maxwell Brigadier General John Francis Mercer Colonel James Wood Morgan Lewis George Mathews

Strength and losses

• Nominal Strength: 48,000 at peak

Movements

• June 1775 – October 1776 Invasion of Quebec (1775)
• July 3, 1775 – March 17, 1776 Siege of Boston Washington takes command at Cambridge and besieges Boston Map
• December 31, 1775 Battle of Quebec (1775)
• April 13, 1776 – August 26, 1776 Fortifies New York City Map
• June 28, 1776 Battle of Sullivan's Island
• July 1776 – March 1777 New York and New Jersey campaign
• August 27, 1776 Battle of Long Island Escapes across the East River on 29-30 August Map
• August 30, 1776 – October 18, 1776 Holds northern Manhattan; Harlem Heights on 16 September Map
• October 11–13, 1776 Battle of Valcour Island
• October 18, 1776 Battle of Pell's Point
• October 28, 1776 Battle of White Plains Map
• November 20, 1776 Fort Lee abandoned; retreats across New Jersey Map
• December 8, 1776 – December 25, 1776 Crosses the Delaware into Pennsylvania Map
• December 26, 1776 Battle of Trenton Map
• January 3, 1777 Battle of Princeton Map
• January 6, 1777 – May 28, 1777 Winter quarters at Morristown Map
• May 29, 1777 – July 1, 1777 Middlebrook encampment Map
• July 2–6, 1777 Siege of Fort Ticonderoga (1777)
• August 24, 1777 Marches through Philadelphia to meet Howe Map
• September 11, 1777 Battle of Brandywine Map
• September 19 – October 17, 1777 Battle of Saratoga
• October 4, 1777 Battle of Germantown Map
• October 22, 1777 Battle of Red Bank
• December 19, 1777 – June 18, 1778 Winter quarters at Valley Forge Map
• June 28, 1778 Battle of Monmouth Map
• July 20, 1778 – November 28, 1778 Watches New York from White Plains Map
• August 29, 1778 Battle of Rhode Island
• December 11, 1778 – June 3, 1779 Winter quarters at Middlebrook Map
• June 20, 1779 – July 15, 1779 Guards the Hudson Highlands around West Point Map
• July 16, 1779 Battle of Stony Point Wayne's light infantry storms Stony Point Map
• July 17, 1779 – November 28, 1779 Hudson Highlands around West Point Map
• September 16 – October 18, 1779 Siege of Savannah
• December 1, 1779 – June 22, 1780 Winter quarters at Jockey Hollow, Morristown Map
• March 29 – May 12, 1780 Siege of Charleston
• June 23, 1780 Battle of Springfield Map
• July 1, 1780 – November 27, 1780 Camps in the Hudson Valley around West Point and Tappan (approximate) Map
• August 16, 1780 Battle of Camden
• December 1, 1780 – June 18, 1781 Winter quarters at New Windsor and West Point Map
• January 17, 1781 Battle of Cowpens
• March 15, 1781 Battle of Guilford Courthouse
• April 25, 1781 Battle of Hobkirk's Hill
• July 6, 1781 – August 18, 1781 Joins Rochambeau at Philipsburg before New York Map
• August 20, 1781 Crosses the Hudson at King's Ferry and marches for Virginia Map
• September 2, 1781 Marches through Philadelphia Map
• September 8, 1781 Head of Elk: embarks down the Chesapeake Map
• September 8, 1781 Battle of Eutaw Springs
• September 14, 1781 – September 27, 1781 Washington reaches Williamsburg Map
• September 28, 1781 – October 19, 1781 Siege of Yorktown Cornwallis surrenders Map
• December 1, 1781 – August 30, 1782 Winter quarters in the Hudson Highlands (approximate) Map
• August 31, 1782 – October 26, 1782 Camp at Verplanck's Point Map
• November 1, 1782 – November 3, 1783 New Windsor Cantonment: the army waits for peace and is furloughed Map