The objectives of the Fort Vancouver Chapter are declared to be patriotic, historical, and educational. They shall include those intended or designed to perpetuate the memory of those patriots, who by their services and sacrifices during the American War for Independence, achieved the independence of the American people; to unite and promote fellowship among the descendants; to inspire them and the community-at-large with a more profound reverence for the principles of the republic form of government, established by our forefathers; to encourage historical research in relation to the founding of the United States of America; to acquire and preserve the records of the individual services of the patriots of the War; as well as documents, patriotism; to maintain and extend the institutions of American freedom; and to carry out the purposes expressed in the Preamble of the United States Constitution.