The US Navy, the US Marines, and the US Army were all founded in Philadelphia in 1775!
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We will spend between 90 minutes and 2 hours, per preference of the group. This is an outdoor walking tour; distance will be about 18 city blocks.
6th & Market Streets, at the Independence Visitor Center, Market Street (south) entrance.
The sculpture of Commodore John Barry, father of the US Navy; the grave of Samuel Nicholas, first commandant of the US Marines; the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the Revolution in Washington Square; New Hall, HQ of Secretary of War Henry Knox under Washington; Betsy Ross House; the planned site for a reconstructed Tun Tavern, where Marine Corps troops were first recruited; the City Tavern, where Paul Revere arrived twice on his horse.
The Grand Battery & the PA Militia; the foundings of the Army, Navy & Marines by Congress; Washington crossing the Delaware and the battles of Trenton and Princeton; the battles of Brandywine, Germantown and Whitemarsh, the Paoli Massacre and the Warwick Furnace; the siege of Fort Mifflin; the winter at Valley Forge and the battle of Monmouth; Philadelphia involvement in the battle of Yorktown; the founding of the Coast Guard by Hamilton; the Shot Tower; the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
We offer a 10% discount to all military personnel, veterans, and their family members.
Children 12 and under are free.
Minimum group size is 3 adults; maximum is 15 adults.
