British Campsite

For a week following the Battle of Monmouth, the main British Army under Gen. Sir Henry Clinton spread its encampment both sides of this road while awaiting transport from Sandy Hook. They embarked for New York July 5, 1778.

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British Campsite

For a week following the Battle of Monmouth, the main British Army under Gen. Sir Henry Clinton spread its encampment both sides of this road while awaiting transport from Sandy Hook. They embarked for New York July 5, 1778.

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British & Hessian Invasion

Route of the 1776 British & Hessian invasion.

Marker is on Tenafly Road north of Westervelt Avenue, on the right when traveling south.

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Attack on British Lines

October 9, 1779

Over this ground, hallowed by the valor and the sacrifice of the soldiery of America and of

France, was fought October 9, 1779, one of the bloodiest battles of the Revolution when

Savannah, which the British had possessed ...

British Raid on Crosswicks Creek

Waters of Crosswicks Creek and the Delaware River join below. 22 vessels at Bordentown and 4 at White Hill were among the 44 that were destroyed in a British raid on May 8, 1778. All were trapped in the Upper ...

British Soldier’s Barracks

The British Army maintained a military presence in New York from 1640 to 1783. During the American Revolution, the British built barracks in this vicinity and used the land now occupied by City Hall Park for military exercises and executions.

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The British Invasion

In early July 1779, British General William Tryon led 2,600 British and Hessian soldiers on raids down the Connecticut shoreline to punish residents for their “ungenerous and wanton insurrection” against the Crown. They destroyed homes, provisions and ammunition in New ...

The British Evacuation

The American capture of Fort Watson on the Santee River on April 23,1781,cut the supply line from Charleston to Camden. Lord Rawdon, commander of the British garrison, admitted that he was"completely dependent...for subsistence, for military stores, for horses, for arms" ...

Why Did the British Burn Ninety Six?

July 1781

The quiet field before you was the site of the once-thriving 1700s town of Ninety Six. In 1781 it had about a dozen homes, a courthouse, and a jail. When Lieutenant Colonel Cruger arrived in 1780, he fortified it ...

First Resistance to British Arms in NY

To commemorate

the first resistance

made to British arms

in New York State

August 1776

Erected by the

Long Island Society

Daughters of the Revolution

A.D. 1916

Marker is on 101st Street, on the left when traveling west.

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