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Detail from an 1806 map showing the area where many of the skirmishes took place. ... at great cost and risk to the Royal Navy. ... New Jersey in the winter of 1776 ...
Joseph Reed played a role in encouraging the militia's activities.. In July 1776 forces of Great Britain under the command of General William Howe landed on Staten Island.Over the next several months, Howe's forces, which were British Army regulars and auxiliary German troops usually referred to as Hessian, chased George Washington's Continental Army out of New York City and across New Jersey. [7]
August 27 – The first session of the New Jersey Legislative Council convenes with the Provincial Congress of New Jersey ceased to function under the New Jersey State Constitution. [1] August 31 – William Livingston is sworn in as the first governor. [2] September 16 – The 4th New Jersey Regiment is raised at Elizabethtown.
Following the Battles of Trenton and Princeton in December 1776 and January 1777, the Continental Army of Major General George Washington entered winter quarters in Morristown, New Jersey, while the British and German forces of Lieutenant General William Howe settled into winter quarters in New York City and northeastern New Jersey. [4]
Pirates of New Jersey. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books. ISBN 9780811706674. Dorwart, Jeffery M. (1992). Cape May County, New Jersey: The Making of an American Resort Community. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-1784-2. Johnson, Robert Amandus (2006). Saint Croix 1770–1776: The First Salute to the Stars and Stripes.
New York’s controversial congestion pricing program is no longer paused after Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a modified plan.
As The Post’s map shows, the cost of entering the congestion zone, defined as entering Manhattan anywhere on 60th Street or below, in a car from Jan. 5 will be significantly higher —between $9 ...
A 1777 map during the Revolutionary War detailing the chevaux-de-frise between Fort Lee and Fort Washington. Fort Lee, originally Fort Constitution, was a Revolutionary War-era fort located on the crest of the Hudson Palisades in what was then Hackensack Township, New Jersey opposite Fort Washington at the northern end of Manhattan Island.