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Sunday, September 4, 2022

This Month in the American Revolution: First Continental Congress, Eutaw Springs, Brandywine, Nathan Hale and Yorktown

From the American Battlefield Trust September 2022 calendar.

SEPTEMBER 5, 1774

**  The First Continental Congress opens at Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia.

SEPTEMBER 8,1781

**  Battle of Eutaw Springs, South Carolina

SEPTEMBER 11, 1777

**  Battle of Brandywine, Pennsylvania

SEPTEMBER 16, 1776

**  Battle of Harlem Heights, New York

SEPTEMBER 22, 1776

**  British execute Nathan Hale, a soldier in the Continental Army.

SEPTEMBER 28, 1781

**  Siege of Yorktown, Virginia, begins

--Cooter