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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.
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
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.
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.
Town of New Windsor: 0.00: 0.00: NY 32 / NY 94 – Newburgh, Highland Mills, Washingtonville, New Windsor: Southern terminus; hamlet of Vails Gate: 2.36: 3.80: NY 207 east (Little Britain Road) – Newburgh: Southern end of NY 207 concurrency: 2.75: 4.43: NY 207 west (Little Britain Road) – Goshen, Stewart International Airport: Northern end ...
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.
[2] [5] While owned by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation the Ellison House is administered and operated by the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, like many other state parks and historic sites in the mid and lower Hudson region. Today, the house can be toured when the site is open.
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