6th & Market Streets, at the Independence Visitor Center, Market Street (south) entrance.

We will see the Liberty Bell, which was cast to celebrate the 50 the anniversary of William Penn’s Charter of Liberties and which was removed during the British occupation of Philadelphia to avoid melting down to make it into cannonballs.

We will visit the grave of Samuel Nicholas, first Commandant of the US Marines, who fought a successful battle on the shores of Nassau in the Bahamas. We’ll also see the Statue of Commodore John Barry, first leader of the US Navy, who fought the British right here on the Delaware River.

We’ll pass by the office building of General Henry Knox, first Secretary of War under Washington, who led the bold transport of cannons 300 miles over winter snow and ice. He enabled Washington to drive the British Army out of Boston and re-open their port.

We will see the home of Thaddeus Kosciuszko, a broken-hearted lover from Poland, who designed blockades submerged in the Delaware River, and Fort Mercer on the Jersey shore.

We will see the Betsy Ross House, where she sewed flags, tents, blankets, and more for Washington’s troops. We will see City Tavern, where generals of both the American and French armies stayed on their march to the Battle of Yorktown and where Paul Revere arrived twice on his horse. We'll also see the planned site for a reconstructed Tun Tavern, where Marine Corps troops were first recruited.

We’ll stand reverently at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the Revolution, and the Eternal Flame in Washington Square; John Adams wrote to Abigail in April of 1777, “I have spent an Hour, this Morning, in the Congregation of the dead…I never in my whole Life was [this] affected…upwards of two Thousand soldiers had been buried there.”

At one of the statues of George Washington, let’s do a thought experiment together: if he doesn’t win the Revolutionary War, what happens? Copies of the Declaration are burned, the Founders are hanged, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are never written.

We’ll refer you to places a short drive away, including the sculpture of Washington at the Philadelphia Art Museum; the Chew House in Germantown, pivotal in that battle; the winter camp at Valley Forge, with the Washington Chapel and the sculptures of Von Steuben and Anthony Wayne; the Paoli battlefield; the Shot Tower just south of Penn’s Landing Park; the Battleship USS New Jersey, directly across the Ben Franklin Bridge in Camden.