Philip John Schuyler was an American general in the Revolutionary War and a United States Senator from New York.
23 Facts About Philip Schuyler
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Philip Schuyler is usually known as Philip Schuyler, while his son is usually known as Philip J Schuyler.
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Philip Schuyler won election to the New York General Assembly in 1768 and to the Continental Congress in 1775.
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Philip Schuyler planned the Continental Army's 1775 Invasion of Quebec, but poor health forced him to delegate command of the invasion to Richard Montgomery.
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Philip Schuyler prepared the Continental Army's defense of the 1777 Saratoga campaign, but was replaced by Major General Horatio Gates as the commander of Continental forces in the theater.
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Philip Schuyler served in the New York State Senate for most of the 1780s and supported the ratification of the United States Constitution.
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Philip Schuyler represented New York in the 1st United States Congress but lost his state's 1791 Senate election to Aaron Burr.
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Philip Schuyler resigned due to poor health the following year.
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Philip Schuyler was the father of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton and the father-in-law of Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.
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Philip Schuyler joined the British forces in 1755 during the French and Indian War, raised a provincial company, and was commissioned as its captain by his cousin, Lieutenant Governor James Delancey.
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Philip Schuyler took part in the battles of Lake George, Oswego River, Carillon and Fort Frontenac.
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Philip Schuyler became colonel and commander of a militia district regiment in 1767.
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General Philip Schuyler took command of the Northern Department, and planned the Invasion of Quebec.
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Philip Schuyler then served in two more sessions of the Continental Congress in 1779 and 1780.
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Philip Schuyler was able to vacate his Albany mansion before the kidnappers arrived.
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Philip Schuyler was an original member of the New York Society of the Cincinnati.
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Philip Schuyler built several schooners on the Hudson River, and named the first Saratoga.
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Philip Schuyler was a member of the New York State Senate from 1780 to 1784, and at the same time New York State Surveyor General from 1781 to 1784.
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Philip Schuyler was the daughter of Johannes Van Rensselaer and his first wife, Engeltje Livingston.
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Philip Schuyler died at the Philip Schuyler Mansion in Albany on November 18,1804, four months after his son-in-law, Alexander Hamilton, was killed in a duel and 2 days before his 71st birthday.
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Philip Schuyler is buried at Albany Rural Cemetery in Menands, New York.
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Philip Schuyler was depicted by John Trumbull in his 1821 painting Surrender of General Burgoyne, which hangs in the United States Capitol rotunda in Washington, DC.
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The non-speaking role of Philip Schuyler was originated by ensemble member Sydney James Harcourt in the 2015 Broadway musical Hamilton, in which Schuyler's son-in-law Alexander Hamilton is the title character.