Battle of Gloucester (1777)

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Battle of Gloucester Part of American Revolutionary War Date 25 November 1777 Location Gloucester, New Jersey Result Patriot victory Belligerents Continental Army Hessians Commanders Marquis de Lafayette  ? Strength 300 more than 300

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The Battle of Gloucester was a skirmish fought on 25 November 1777, during the Philadelphia campaign of the American Revolutionary War.

Having recovered from his wound at Brandywine, the Marquis de Lafayette led 300 Continental Army soldiers from General Nathanael Greene's division in a reconnaissance in force towards the British position at Gloucester, New Jersey, opposite Philadelphia. There he engaged a larger force of Hessians in Lord Cornwallis's army and got the better of them.

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• Boatner, Mark Mayo, III. Encyclopedia of the American Revolution. Revised ed. New York: McKay, 1974. ISBN 0-8117-0578-1.