Brandywine Creek, a stream rising in Chester county, Pennsylvania, flowing with a general south-easterly course into Delaware, and emptying into Christiana Creek at the city of Wilmington. During the War of Independence, a battle was fought on its banks, September 11, 1777, in which 13,000 Americans, under Washington, were defeated by a force of 18,000 British, under Lord Howe.
Brandywine Creek
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 400
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