As a delegate from 1779 to 1780, he was a strong supporter of Washington and the army. Later life Īfter his service in the War ended, Armstrong returned home to Carlisle, where he was elected to the Continental Congress by the Pennsylvania Assembly. At aged sixty, his health was declining, and old wounds were troubling him. give any good reason for the flight." Īfter Germantown, Armstrong was granted permission to give up active command. mysteriously lost, for to this moment no one man can.
Armstrong, whose men had advanced nearly to the center of Germantown, but were not greatly involved in the fight later complained that it was ".a glorious victory fought for and eight tenths won. The attack then collapsed after a friendly fire incident in the fog in which General Adam Stephen's men fired on Anthony Wayne's troops causing their withdrawal.
Despite delays and the troubles some units had in moving, the overall attack was going well, until the center was held up at the Benjamin Chew House. His mission was to skirt the British left flank and attack there and in their rear. In the Battle of Germantown on October 4, General Armstrong led the American right. Armstrong brought the supplies and his militia out from Pyle's Ford after dark. After a hard day's fighting the Americans were forced to withdraw or face being surrounded. They were also to guard the army's supplies. Īt the Battle of Brandywine on September 11, 1777, Armstrong's militia held the far left of the American line. This ended his service in the Continental Army, but not the war or his cooperation with General George Washington. Pennsylvania named him major general in charge of the state militia. When General Charles Lee arrived to take command, he returned to his duties with the main army and with the Pennsylvania militia. He contributed his engineering talents to the construction of defenses that enabled them to withstand the Battle of Sullivan's Island later that year. He was sent south to begin preparations for the defense of Charleston, South Carolina. On March 1, 1776, the Continental Congress appointed him to that same rank in the Continental Army. In the early stages of the American Revolutionary War, Armstrong was a brigadier general in the Pennsylvania militia. Letter from Armstrong to George Washington expressing Armstrong's opinion on proposed attack on British forces at Philadelphia, 25 November 1777 He was later appointed surveyor for the newly established Cumberland County. In 1750, he laid out the first plat or plan for the town of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and was one of its first settlers.
Career Īrmstrong came to Pennsylvania as a surveyor for the Penn family, the proprietary owners of the colony. John was educated in Ireland and became a civil engineer before emigrating to Pennsylvania, with his brother-in-law, John Lyon, around 1740. He was one of approximately 15 children born to his parents that included: Margaret Armstrong (1737–1817), who married Rev. Armstrong was born on October 13, 1717, in Brookeborough, County Fermanagh, Ireland, parents not determined, who married in 1704.
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