Benjamin Ring House

Benjamin Ring House is a historic building on the Brandywine Battlefield in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.

Located along the main road from Philadelphia to Baltimore, the house was about a mile east of the ford at Brandywine Creek.

Washington held a Council of War at the house on September 9, and anticipated that the British Army would cross at the ford.

Instead, on September 11, the bulk of British forces crossed upstream and attacked from the north, surprising and overwhelming the Continental soldiers.

Washington had asked Benjamin Ring to lead the Continental army's retreat out of the area when he realized the battle was a loss.