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Philip Van Cortlandt (* 21. August 1749 in New York City; † 21. November 1831 bei Croton, Westchester County, New York) war ein US-amerikanischer General und Politiker. Er stammte aus einer Siedlerfamilie in Nieuw Nederland und war der Bruder des Kongressabgeordneten Pierre Van Cortlandt, Jr.
Philip Van Cortlandt (September 1, 1749 – November 5, 1831) was an American surveyor, landowner, and politician from Westchester County, New York. Van Cortlandt was the son of Pierre Van Cortlandt and brother of Pierre Van Cortlandt, Jr.
14. März 2023 · Philip Van Cortlandt was a commander of the Continental Army during the American Revolution serving in multiple major campaigns throughout.
Philip Van Cortlandt was a colonel, who commanded the Second New York Regiment in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. At the end of the Revolutionary War, he was promoted to brigadier general for gallant conduct at the siege of Yorktown under General Lafayette.
Title: Philip Van Cortlandt. Artist: Ezra Ames (American, Framingham, Massachusetts 1768–1836 Albany, New York) Date: ca. 1810. Culture: American. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 36 x 28 in. (91.4 x 71.1 cm) Credit Line: Gift of Christian A. Zabriskie, 1940. Accession Number: 40.94.
The Van Cortlandt family was an influential political dynasty from the seventeenth-century Dutch origins of New York through its period as an English colony, then after it became a state, and into the nineteenth century.
After the war, Van Cortlandt was a commissioner of the appropriation of Loyalist lands in New York. As a delegate to the Poughkeepsie convention in 1788, Van Cortlandt opposed his father and his political ally, Governor George Clinton, and voted for ratification of the federal Constitution.
