13th » American Revolutionary War: American forces are ambushed and defeated in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey.
27th » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Ridgefield: A Great Britain called British invasion force engages and defeats Continental Army regulars and militia irregulars at Ridgefield, Connecticut.
Famous Birthdays on April in 1777
12th » Henry Clay, American lawyer and politician, 9th United States Secretary of State (d. 1852)
30th » Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1855)