The British General

In September 1778, British commanders sent huge foraging parties up both sides of the Hudson River, stripping the local farms of their autumn harvest and livestock. Washington’s forces in the area were seriously outnumbered, but he sent small bodies of ...

Hibben House / British Occupation

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Hibben House

A 1777 map shows a house on this property owned by Jacob Motte, Charleston City Treasurer. His 67 acre plantation called Mount Pleasant provided the name for the present town. James Hibben purchased the land in 1803. ...

Grave of British Soldier

Grave of British Soldier

Who died during the

Revolutionary War when using

St. David's Church as a hospital

in the summer of 1780

Colonel Campbell, Commander

of the 71st. Regiment, is also

buried here.

Marker is on Church Street near Front Street, on the ...

British 24 Pounder

Captured on the British flagship Confiance on Lake Champlain, September 11, 1814, by Commodore Thomas MacDonough.

This gun has a dent on the muzzle from an American shot which caused the gun to recoil and kill the British commander, Downie.

Marker can ...

British Headquarters

Near Hudson`s Ferry, about four miles east of Newington, General Augustine Prevost in command of 4000 British regulars made headquarters and constructed redoubts in February, 1779. The complete occupation of Georgia was directed and effected from this point.

General Prevost, cleverly ...

Here the British Turned

Here the British turned into Galloping Hill Road from Elizabethtown to Connecticut Farms and Springfield at the time of the battles June 7 and 23, 1780.

Washington afterwards said of the New Jersey militia “They flew to arms universally, and acted ...

Named for a British Lord

The town you see 1,400 feet below, the mountain on which you stand, and the Gap itself all bear the name of an English royal - the Duke of Cumberland. Prince William Augustus (1721-1765) was the third and favorite son ...

Last British Thrust into New Jersey

The last and deepest thrust towards Morristown and Washington’s supplies was stopped here by the American militia on June 25, 1780. After a punishing retreat, the British never entered New Jersey again in force.

Marker is on Millburn Avenue (County Route ...

Bank of British North America/La Bank of British North America

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The BNA, which opened Dawson City’s first bank in a tent in 1898, moved into these premises in 1899. By providing the essential services of assaying, buying and shipping gold, it helped integrate the local currency of dust and nuggets ...

Madison Square, British Southern Line of Defenses

Through this square ran the southern line of defenses of the British who held Savannah from December 29, 1778 to July 11, 1782. After a seige of 22 days, at dawn of October 9, 1779, the strong western defenses on ...