American Army Order of Battle
Major General George Washington (11,000)
- Quartermaster General: Major General Nathanael Greene
- Inspector General: Major General: Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
- Senior Artillery Officer: Brigadier General Henry Knox
- Senior Engineer Officer: Brigadier General Louis Lebègue Duportail
- Adjutant General: Colonel Alexander Scammell
- Commissary Generals: Colonels Jeremiah Wadsworth and Clement Biddle
- Judge Advocate General: Colonel John Lawrence
- Military Secretary: Lieutenant Colonel Robert H. Harrison
- Assistant Secretary: James McHenry
- Aide-de-camp: Lieutenant Colonels John Fitzgerald, Alexander Hamilton, John Laurens and Richard Meade
- Volunteer aides-de-camp: Brigadier Generals Joseph Reed and John Cadwalader
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