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Lectures focus on Bergen County's role in the founding of the United States as part of the festivities commemorating the ...
Lectures focus on Bergen County's role in the founding of the United States as part of the festivities commemorating the ...
“Dubbed Connecticut’s Valley Forge, the park is the site of the Continental Army’s 1779 winter encampment under the command of General Israel Putnam. In 1778 and 1779, 3,000 soldiers camped ...
volunteered for the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. He became a war hero and a major general and a friend of the most famous American of all, Gen. George Washington. Later, in 1779 ...
The rest of the park includes Ford Mansion in Morristown, where George Washington stayed during the infamous "hard winter" of 1779-80 ... as part of the Continental Army's communication network ...
Spain, in 1779, decided it was going to enter the ... It's not like what we picture George Washington and the continental army against the redcoats. There are a small number of British army ...
Just two years away from its 250th anniversary, the April 13, 1777 Battle of Bound Brook between the Continental Army and ...
By Henry HoweDirector, Fort Jackson Museum CommunityWhen the American Revolution began on April 19, 1775, the colonies relied on local militias to ...