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The Fort Clinton site is near the west end of the Bear Mountain Bridge. On October 6, 1777, Forts Clinton and Montgomery were attacked by the British 63rd Regiment led by Sir Henry Clinton (a distant relative of James Clinton, according to information at the Fort Montgomery state historic site museum).
Castle Clinton (also known as Fort Clinton and Castle Garden) is a restored circular sandstone fort within Battery Park at the southern end of Manhattan in New York City, United States. Built from 1808 to 1811, it was the first American immigration station, predating Ellis Island. More than 7.5 million people arrived in the United States at ...
Also on the west side of the river, south of the gorge, they had established Fort Clinton (probably named for General James Clinton). [12] [13] Fort Montgomery, which was still undergoing construction, was under the command of General (and Governor of New York) George Clinton, while Fort Clinton was under the command of his older brother James ...
Fort Clinton was a stone-and-earthworks fortification on an elevation within what is now Central Park in New York City. It was built in 1814 near the present line of 107th Street, slightly west of Fifth Avenue .
West Point is the oldest continuously occupied military post in the United States.Located on the Hudson River in New York, General George Washington stationed his headquarters in West Point in the summer and fall of 1779 during the American Revolutionary War, and later called it "the most important Post in America" in 1781 following the war's end.
The fort was commanded by General George Clinton, also the newly appointed Patriot governor of the State. Fort Montgomery and its companion fortification, the smaller Fort Clinton, on the southern bank of the Popolopen, held a combined garrison of roughly 700 Colonial soldiers. These men were from the 5th NY Regiment, Lamb's Artillery, Orange ...
Fort Amsterdam; Castle Clinton; Fort Clinton; Fort Columbus; Fort Crown Point; Fort Drum; Fort Edward; Fort Gansevoort; Fort Gibson; Fort Greene; Fort Hamilton; Camp Hero; Fort Jay; Fort Lafayette; Fort Lévis; Madison Barracks; Fort Michie; Fort Montgomery (1776) Fort Montgomery (1844) Forts of New Netherland; Fort Niagara; Fort Ontario; Fort ...
Fort Clinton may refer to: Fort Clinton, a Hudson River, New York fortification held by revolutionary troops until destroyed by British forces in 1777; Fort Clinton (West Point), a later Hudson River fortification, now the site of the US Military Academy; Castle Clinton, a fortification on the southern tip of Manhattan Island, New York, later ...