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Between June 1782 and October 1783 7,000 troops were boarded here in 600 log huts, over 1,600 acres (650 ha). Although the Siege of Yorktown had ended most hostilities the year before, the British still occupied New York City and other ports, and George Washington believed that there was still strong sentiment in Britain for restarting the war and taking the colonies back.
The reconstructed Temple at the New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site in New Windsor, New York, where the critical meeting took place on March 15, 1783. The Newburgh Conspiracy was a failed apparent threat by leaders of the Continental Army in March 1783, at the end of the American Revolutionary War.
On May 24, 2002, U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (New York) announced that she had introduced a resolution (S. Con. Res. 113) to support efforts to create a National Purple Heart Hall of Honor. New York State committed $4.1 million toward the planning, design, and construction of the Hall of Honor.
New Windsor Cantonment: July 31, 1972 : Temple Hill Rd. New Windsor: Last encampment of the Continental Army; here Washington put down the Newburgh Conspiracy: 113: New York, Ontario & Western Railway Company Middletown Station
This encampment or cantonment covered 1600 acres (6.5 km 2) and quartered 6000–8000 men, women and children from New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maryland. Here this army built a log city of over 700 huts for the soldiers and many other outbuildings, guardhouses, blacksmith shops, a stable, kitchens, and a hospital.
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Pages in category "New York (state) historic sites" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total. ... New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site; O.
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