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Continental Army
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/Continental_Army
GPTKB entity
Statements (91)
Predicate
Object
gptkbp:instanceOf
gptkb:military_organization
gptkbp:activeYearsEnd
1783
gptkbp:activeYearsStart
1775
gptkbp:alliedWith
gptkb:French_Army
gptkb:Dutch_forces
gptkb:Spanish_forces
gptkbp:commander
gptkb:George_Washington
gptkbp:conflict
gptkb:American_Revolutionary_War
gptkbp:country
gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:disbanded
1783
gptkbp:establishedBy
gptkb:Second_Continental_Congress
gptkbp:garrison
gptkb:Valley_Forge
gptkbp:headquarters
gptkb:Philadelphia
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
Continental Army
gptkbp:motto
gptkb:This_We'll_Defend
gptkbp:notableBattle
gptkb:Battle_of_Bunker_Hill
gptkb:Battle_of_Princeton
gptkb:Battle_of_Trenton
gptkb:Battle_of_Saratoga
gptkb:Siege_of_Yorktown
gptkbp:notableCommander
gptkb:Henry_Knox
gptkb:Baron_von_Steuben
gptkb:Benedict_Arnold
gptkb:Horatio_Gates
gptkb:Marquis_de_Lafayette
gptkb:Nathanael_Greene
gptkbp:notableEvent
gptkb:Siege_of_Boston
gptkb:Treaty_of_Paris_1783
gptkb:Crossing_of_the_Delaware_River
gptkb:Winter_at_Valley_Forge
gptkbp:notableMember
gptkb:Alexander_Hamilton
gptkb:Israel_Putnam
gptkb:John_Adams
gptkb:John_Stark
gptkb:Philip_Schuyler
gptkb:John_Lamb
gptkb:Benjamin_Tallmadge
gptkb:Casimir_Pulaski
gptkb:Charles_Lee
gptkb:Daniel_Morgan
gptkb:David_Wooster
gptkb:Edward_Hand
gptkb:Enoch_Poor
gptkb:Ethan_Allen
gptkb:Friedrich_Wilhelm_von_Steuben
gptkb:Henry_Lee_III
gptkb:James_Wilkinson
gptkb:Jedediah_Huntington
gptkb:John_Brooks
gptkb:John_Cadwalader
gptkb:John_Eager_Howard
gptkb:John_Glover
gptkb:John_Haslet
gptkb:John_Laurens
gptkb:John_Nixon
gptkb:John_Paterson
gptkb:John_Paul_Jones
gptkb:John_Peter_Gabriel_Muhlenberg
gptkb:Joseph_Reed
gptkb:Moses_Hazen
gptkb:Peter_Muhlenberg
gptkb:Samuel_Holden_Parsons
gptkb:Thaddeus_Kosciuszko
gptkb:William_Heath
gptkb:William_Smallwood
gptkb:William_Washington
gptkb:Benjamin_Lincoln
gptkb:Francis_Marion
gptkb:James_Monroe
gptkb:John_Sullivan
gptkb:Richard_Montgomery
gptkb:Thomas_Mifflin
gptkb:Anthony_Wayne
gptkb:Thomas_Sumter
gptkbp:opposedBy
gptkb:British_Army
gptkb:Hessian_mercenaries
gptkbp:predecessor
militant
gptkbp:purpose
fight for independence from Great Britain
gptkbp:size
varied (peaked at about 80,000 soldiers)
gptkbp:successor
gptkb:United_States_Army
gptkbp:uniform
blue
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:American_independence_movement
gptkb:Continental_Congress
gptkb:Henry_Knox
gptkb:James_Mitchell_Varnum
gptkb:John_Trumbull
gptkb:Longfellow_House–Washington's_Headquarters_National_Historic_Site
gptkb:Siege_of_Boston
gptkb:Benjamin_Stoddert
gptkb:Secretary_at_War_(Continental_Congress)
gptkbp:bfsLayer
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