The Benjamin Ring House at the Brandywine Battlefield Historic Site in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. This was the location of the Battle of Brandywine, the largest engagement of the Revolutionary War, fought on September 11, 1777, between the Continental Army led by General George Washington and the British forces headed by General William Howe. Nearly 30,000 soldiers fought in a 10-square-mile area. The house, owned by Ring, a Quaker mlller and farmer, served as Washington’s headquarters for the battle — which he and the colonials lost. Photo by Carol Highsmith, 2019.