Battle of Gloucester (1777)

Battle of Gloucester
Part of the American Revolutionary War
Date November 25, 1777 Location National Park, Gloucester County, New Jersey Coordinates: 39°52′19″N 75°11′19″W / 39.87206°N 75.18871°W / 39.87206; -75.18871 Result American victory
Belligerents
United States	Great Britain Hesse-Kassel
Commanders and leaders
Marquis de Lafayette Armand de La Rouërie	Lord Cornwallis
Strength
350 regulars and militia	350 jägers
Casualties and losses
1 killed 5 wounded	20 killed 20 wounded 20 captured

 Great Britain

Marquis de Lafayette

The Battle of Gloucester was a skirmish fought between November 25, 1777 and the early morning of November 26, 1777, during the Philadelphia campaign of the American Revolutionary War. It was the first battlefield command for the Marquis de Lafayette.

In mid-1777, British General William Howe embarked on a plan to regain control of Britain's rebellious Thirteen Colonies by capturing Philadelphia, the city where the Continental Congress met. He successfully captured the city in September 1777, and then, after consolidating his command of the city by repulsing an attack from General George Washington's Continental Army at Germantown in October, sought to gain control of the Delaware River as far north as the city, on which his army depended for supplies.

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