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The first major emigration of Germans to America results in the founding of the Borough of Germantown in northwest Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania in 1683.
Francis Daniel Pastorius, a German educator, humanitarian, author, and public official who has helped settle Pennsylvania and had founded Germantown is one of several Pennsylvania Quakers who in 1688 sign a protest against keeping slaves that, though unsuccessful, is the first of its kind in the English colonies.
The British, after taking Philadelphia, garrison about nine thousand troops in Germantown, five miles (eight kilometers) north of the city.
Washington launches an unsuccessful surprise attack on Germantown on October 4, then retreats to watch and wait for the British to counterattack.
Again, Howe does not follow up on his victory, leaving the American army intact and able to fight.
Meanwhile, the British need a supply route along the Delaware River to support their occupation of Philadelphia.
Washington launches an unsuccessful surprise attack on Germantown on October 4, then retreats to watch and wait for the British to counterattack.
Again, Howe does not follow up on his victory, leaving the American army intact and able to fight.
Meanwhile, the British need a supply route along the Delaware River to support their occupation of Philadelphia.