The Battle of Brandywine:
             Part 1 of 10
             The British...
             Many of the 15,000 British troops spent the night in Kennett Square
             -- population 2,000 -- unwinding and carousing, while a battle
             General Howe's flanking strategy was devised two days earlier:
             While General Knyphausen attacked at Chadd's Ford, as
             Washington expected, Cornwallis would stealthily move north, cross
             the Brandywine, and flank Washington's right. [Map and a fuller
             The Americans...
             By the night of September
             10th, the American troops were
             extended along a six-mile line
             covering the east side of the
             Brandywine Creek. Washington
             knew that the British army
             would have to ford the
             Brandywine if they were to get
             to their target -- Philadelphia.
             He discounted the possibility of
             being flanked, assuming that
             Howe would rely upon his his
             greater troop strength and
             superior artillery to press a direct attack.
             Washington believed that the British would have to ford the
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