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September 27 in U.S. military history

1860: During an insurrection on Panama, a landing party of Marines from the sloop-of-war USS St. Mary’s land and take

1777: Gen. Sir William Howe outmaneuvers Gen. George Washington’s Continental Army and takes the American capital of Philadelphia. Historically, wars

1780: Maj. Gen. Benedict Arnold learns that British spy Maj. John André has been captured, along with the evidence that

1780: After deliberately weakening the defenses of Fort Arnold (now known as West Point), Hudson River, and other areas under

1777: British Maj. Gen. Charles Grey launches a daring nighttime attack on Brig. Gen. Anthony Wayne’s Continental Army forces encamped