Portal:Philadelphia/Selected picture/October 2009
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![56th Street Station.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Battle_of_whitemarsh_view.jpg/600px-Battle_of_whitemarsh_view.jpg)
Photo credit: Johann Martin Will
The Battle of White Marsh was a battle of the Philadelphia campaign of the American Revolutionary War fought December 5–8, 1777, in the area surrounding White Marsh, Pennsylvania. The battle, which took the form of a series of skirmish actions, was the last major engagement of 1777 between British and American forces.