Fort Mercer
Red Bank, New Jersey
General Thaddeus Kosciuszko contributed his engineering skills to the fortification of the Delaware River during the American Revolution which prevented the British Navy from entering Philadelphia in the fall of 1777.
This was the second engineering assignment General Kosciuszko received from the Continental Congress.
Designated a Kosciuszko Military Engineering site by THE COPERNICUS SOCIETY OF AMERICA under the authority of a Concurrent Resolution of The U.S. Congress – S. Con. Res. 44. Passed April 1978.
Marker can be reached from Hessian Road, on the right when traveling west.
Courtesy hmdb.org
