At one point during the "Battle Of Brooklyn Heights" Col. Daniel Brodhead III would assume command of all remaining forces and cover the withdrawal of
George Washington's retreat across the East River to Manhattan. (Captain Daniel Brodhead I had landed at this same location on Manhattan with the British grenadiers in 1665).   

December 23, 1776

 The Brodheads would winter with George Washington at Valley Forge. Luke and Daniel would take "The oath of Allegiance" along with: Alexander Hamilton,  Charles Lee, Nathaniel Greene, Benedict Arnold, Anthony Wayne, Baron Von Steuben, Peter Muhlengurg, Tench Tilghman, Marquis De Lafeyette and so on. Luke would become very good friends with Marquis De Lafeyette. Battle after battle, Col. Daniel Brodhead would prove himself a very competent and brave field commander for the Thompson's rifles 8th Pennsylvania.  So much so that George Washington placed him in charge of the Western Department headquartered at Fort Pitt even as a Colonel. A command equal to any of other department. 


Other famous battles were  the Defense of Philedelphia, Princeton, Paoli , and Germantown, and command of the Western department headquartered at
Fort Pitt (Pittsburg) 

Serves with George Rogers Clark older brother of William Clark (Lewis and Clark) 

  1812 

Major Richard Brodhead (Great plus Grand Father) 
2^nd battalion Pennsylvania state Militia  

War of 1812-1815  

Private Garret Brodhead ( Great plus Grand father)
Adam Hawks 2^nd Brigade Pennsylvania Militia  


1829 to 1833
John Brodhead
Jacksonian Democrat     U.S. House of Representatives
New hampshire               21st and 22nd Congress


1831 to 1833
John Curtis Brodhead
Jacksonian Democrat      U.S. House of Representatives
New York                          22nd Congress




1847 Mexican American War    

Captain Thornton Fleming Brodhead      Northern Democrat  (distant cousin)

serves in the 15^th infantry during The Mexican American war with Grant, Lee, Pierce, Johnston, Johnston, Jackson, Jefferson Davis, Scott, Longstreet, at the battles of Churubrusco, Contreras, and Mexico City. (cousin)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKe2_SFwSYY



 
1848  Wilmot Proviso debates
Senator Richard H. Brodhead           Stephen Douglas style Democrat
(Great plus Grand Uncle)

 debates on the slavery issue in the newly acquired territory taken by the Mexican American War . Also debates  the Missouri compromise, and Kansas Nebraska act

( One of the reasons I am a Republican)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwSNxXWMLe0  
 

1853 Senate Bill S-396

Senator Richard H. Brodhead  Authors and helps pass S-396 which funds The beginnings of the  Transcontinental Railroad and Transcontinental Telegraph

Beset by so many contending interests, Congress finally abandoned the effort to settle on one best transcontinental route. Pennsylvania Senator Richard Brodhead's proposal for a reconnaissance of several potential lines by the Topographical Engineers, rejected early in the debate, was resurrected and passed as an amendment to the Army appropriation. The legislation took the difficult decision out of the hands of Congress and placed the burden on Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, who was charged with assigning survey teams to all prospective routes and selecting the best line based on the data compiled by field parties. Presumably, the topogs impartial analysis would succeed where partisan politics failed. [6]


My great grand plus Uncle sponsored and passed funding for the first Transcontinental telegraph to California and Oregon and beginnings of the Transcontinental railroad (see senate bill s-396 during the 32nd congress 1853)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcAoIlyw9i0 

1852 Rebuilding the Capital Building Dome

Senator Richard H Brodhead helps pass legislation financing Capital building dome, Congressional library, West and East Wing  see 32nd Congress S-460




http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/senate/capitol/pg187.pdf

Established court of claims

Helps pass legislation for the “10 regiments act” ( 160 acre land parcels for Mexican/American war volunteers)

Helps Revolutionary war and War of 1812 soldiers gain pensions.

Married to Sally Bradford   Jefferson Davis’s niece. He doesnt run in 1857 and is replaced by  Simon Cameron in 1857 (Lincolns Secretary of War). He dies shortly after Gettysburg at age 53 

1856 

Charles Brodhead  ( distant cousin) and Augustus Wolle (The father of Bethlehem steel) Organize the Saucona Iron Company in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.  They first purchased the property where Bethlehem steel sits on. ( cousin)

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QTGiHOZZFU 

1861  The Wolverines    The First Michigan Cavalry

 Col. Thornton Fleming Brodhead  (distant cousin)

raises 1st Michigan cavalry at out set of Civil war.

(Wolverines)

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxbeqV1MhxA&feature=related

1862   On August  17th, Buford was ordered to make a reconnaissance across the Rapidan in force.  He sent two of his regiments, the 1st Michigan and the 5th New York led by Col. Thornton Fleming Brodhead, and Col. Ira Harris.  The next day, they captured JEB Stuart's adjutant-general, who was carrying valuable dispatches from Lee.  Pressing on, they surprised Stuart himself while he was relaxing at a farmhouse with his staff.  Stuart narrowly got away, but not without leaving his famous plumed cavalier's hat and scarlet cloak - those fell into the regiments' hands as war prizes.  The Federals returned with both of the prizes and John Mosby (Mosby’s raiders)  and news that Pope was being flanked.  Pope immediately

moves his army across the Rappahannock river. The intelligence captured may have saved Popes army from total destruction.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJHnsveW08A

1862  August 30th

Brevet General Thornton Fleming Brodhead is mortally wounded at Lewis Ford while interdicting a (Jeb Stuart)12^th  Virginia Confederate cavalry flanking movement. Popes army was in retreat to the outskirts of Washington after its thrashing at Manassas.  His stand at the Lewis Ford foiled Stewarts attempt at taking thousands of Union prisoners.  

Col. Thornton F. Brodhead, commanding officer of the 1st Michigan, was apparently the last Federal on the battlefield. Brodhead tried to rally Buford's routed forces, and could have escaped with the rest of the command. However, he chose to stay and try to patch together a defensive line. Adjutant Lewis Harman of the 12th Virginia met Brodhead near the Lewis Ford. Harman demanded Brodhead's surrender and, when Brodhead refused, the Confederate shot and mortally wounded the Yankee officer. Harman rode off with Brodhead's horse, saddle, pistols, and sabre. Brodhead received a deathbed brevet to brigadier general for his vallant stand at the Lewis Ford. The 1st Michigan also lost its Major, Charles Town--down with two bullet wounds and a saber cut.

1863  General George Armstrong Custer becomes commander of 1st Michigan Cavalry. The 1st Michigan sees battle at Gettysburg and foils Jeb Stuarts attempt to get into the Federal rear while Pickets charge was commencing.  The Wolverines will serve with honor and distinction throughout the rest of the war. .. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii4vAY8ftxk&feature=related

1863
Lt. Edgar Brodhead    (distant Cousin)
serves on the third ship to be called the U.S.S. Saratoga (Sloop of war)
Acting Lieutenant, Commanding  (cousin)  

Admiral J.A. Dahlgren,
Comdg. South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, Charleston, S. C.  

1864

Jeb Stuart is mortally wounded at “The battle of Yellow Tavern”   ‘the Wolverines’  Michigan Cavalry Brigade under Custer and Sheridan) . 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh1YU3YKFBI&feature=related   

1864

Private Jacob Brodhead    (distant cousin)

serves Co. F 16^th New York Artillery Fortress Monroe and Army of the James  (cousin)





1865   During the surrender of Lees Army of Northern Virginia, General  Lee must  ride through the mounted ranks of the 1st Michigan cavalry on his way to Appomattox courthouse.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5grgB-dV2o

May 10th 1865
4th Michigan cavalry captures Jefferson Davis

1898 (cousin)

Coxswain Richard Thornton Brodhead serves on the Auxiliary cruiser U.S.S Yosemite during the Spanish American War…. Blockades San Juan harbor    Puerto Rico 




1907 to 1909
Jefferson Davis Brodhead
Grand Nephew of CSA Jefferson Davis
Pennsylvania                                          U.S. House of Representatives
                                                                 60th Congress


1930    

Coxswain Richard Thornton Brodhead would become the most  

Prominent figure in the development of the Michigan Naval Militia. 

Builds Brodhead Armory in Detroit  


1951 Californian 

Prvt. Richard R. Brodhead mortally wounded in Korean conflict. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVkH1Aw6qYU
 

1930s and 40s  (Grand father)
Andrew Jackson Brodhead     ( Democrat)
Engineering Draftsman  Pratt &Whitney Aircraft engines

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hWZ40120BQ&feature=related
 

1944 to 1968 (Uncle) 

Major Andrew Douglas Brodhead  ( Republican)

Army Air Corps and Strategic Air Command

While in the Army Air corps and SAC flies the B-17, B-29, KC-97, B-52, and KC-135. Perform  security officer for Nuclear airborne alert mission out of Seymour Johnson .

"Operation Chrome Dome"   Squadron Security Officer 




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsjmO5YdNOc&feature=related

Back up crew to Polameres crew 10:22 in the Morning

1. Jan. 17, 1966. A giant U.S. B-52 bomber with four hydrogen bombs aboard collided with a K-135 air tanker above the Almeria coast of eastern Spain. The tanker burst into flames and the B-52 broke up and tumbled to earth. Three of the bombs, each measuring 10 ft. in length and 20 in. in diameter, landed near the village of Palomares 

WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Cuban, missile crisis, etc. 

1950 to 1973  

Msgt. Milton Easton Brodhead    ( Independent)
(Father)

Strategic Air Command

1st Combat Evaluation Group

While in SAC (1st Combat evaluation group), performs 2 tours in Vietnam and Thailand as a radar technician in support of Combat Sky spot(95 percent increase in accuracy which saved thousands of Vietnamese civilians) Helps also score SAC B-52 aircrews in Bombing Navigation for Arc light, Linebackers, Rolling Thunder etc.  

Msgt. Milton Brodhead        Ol-25 Dalat South Vietnam     (RVN)  1966

Msgt. Milton Brodhead    OL-23 Nakhon Phanom, Thailand     1968

 (1^st CEVG Units directed precision B-52 strikes right along the perimeter line during siege of Khe Sahn  Tet offensive.)  

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lNxccqK_GI

1978 to 2006

Stephan Andrew Brodhead     (Republican)

Strategic Air Command  and Military Airlift Command

While in the Strategic Air Command performed Nuclear Alert on the B-52

While a United States Air Force Reserve C-141B/C Flight Engineer
Performs medivac and humanitarian missions worldwide

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax_Wb47Lhm8&feature=related















 
Somali, Rwanda,  Cuban refugee relocation, Northern Watch, Southern Watch,

Flew FEMA assets on 911, Afghanistan, Alqaida relocation to Gitmo, Iraq war.

100 combat related sorties, 20 medivac sorties into Iraq. 4600 flying hours, over 4000 points, averaged 200 points a year for 20 years  flew approximately 25 times a round the earth per year for 15 years in support of our national interest...........