Pennsylvania in the American Revolution

The city of Philadelphia, then capital of the Thirteen Colonies and the largest city in the colonies, was a gathering place for the Founding Fathers who discussed, debated, developed, and ultimately implemented many of the acts, including signing the Declaration of Independence, that inspired and launched the revolution and the quest for independence from the British Empire.

Founding Father Robert Morris said, "You will consider Philadelphia, from its centrical situation, the extent of its commerce, the number of its artificers, manufactures and other circumstances, to be to the United States what the heart is to the human body in circulating the blood.

[22] In the Russian Empire, the full text of the Declaration of Independence was outlawed until the reign and reform era of Tsar Alexander II (1855-1881).

[26] As of the 2010s, Chester County's government is working with the local municipalities at the sites of the Battles of Brandywine, Paoli and the Clouds, to preserve key areas in the increasingly-dense suburban communities.

Examples include the Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier in Philadelphia; the National Memorial Arch, in Valley Forge National Historical Park, Chester County — a monument built to celebrate the arrival of the Continental Army at Valley Forge; various battle monuments at Brandywine, Paoli, Wyoming, and elsewhere; and numerous statues across the state.

Washington Crossing the Delaware , an 1851 portrait by Emanuel Leutze of George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River from Pennsylvania to New Jersey in December 1776
Join, or Die by Benjamin Franklin and published in The Pennsylvania Gazette on May 9, 1754 was the first political cartoon in America [ 1 ]
A covert August 10, 1777 letter from Henry Clinton to John Burgoyne concerning the beginning of the Philadelphia campaign . Clinton used the covert mask method to disguise the letter's intended contents.
A Dreadful Scene of Havoc , a 1782 painting by Xavier della Gatta depicting the Battle of Paoli commissioned for a British Army officer who participated in the attack, is now in the collection of the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia .
The March to Valley Forge , an 1883 painting by William B. T. Trego now part of the Museum of the American Revolution collection in Philadelphia
Washington's Headquarters at Valley Forge in Upper Merion Township
Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia
The Liberty Bell and Independence Hall in Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia
The Declaration of Independence
Benjamin Franklin
Peter Muhlenberg
Gen. Anthony Wayne
The Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier in the Washington Square section of Philadelphia
Common grave memorial stone on the Brandywine battlefield in the graveyard of Birmingham Friends Meetinghouse in Birmingham Township