Pennsylvania's Brandywine a big battlefield, but almost forgotten.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: March 18, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

CHADDS FORD, Pa. _ Brandywine may be one of America's most forgotten Revolutionary War battlefields.

You can visit Gen. George Washington's reconstructed headquarters and the nearby quarters of the Marquis de Lafayette, along with a small visitor center/museum at Brandywine Battlefield State Park.

Both officers were lodged in historic Quaker farmhouses on a 50-acre tract that today lies off U.S. 1 about 20 miles southwest of Philadelphia.

It is the site of Revolutionary War re-enactments and children's summer camps with a colonial theme. But most of the hilly and ...

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