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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.
Historical Collections of the State of New Jersey. New York: S. Tuttle. p. 315. OCLC 10631653. Cecere, Michael (2006). They Are Indeed a Very Useful Corps: American Riflemen in the Revolutionary War. Westminster, MD: Heritage Books. ISBN 978-0-7884-4141-7. OCLC 74060495. Duncan, Francis (1872). History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, Volume ...
Detail from an 1806 map showing the area where many of the skirmishes took place. ... New Jersey in the winter of 1776–1777. On 5 January 1777, a British cavalry ...
Detail from a 1777 map of the area. The Bound Brook outpost was near the spot labeled "Bridgewater" on this map. In February 1777, the Bound Brook outpost consisted of 1,000 men under the command of Major General Benjamin Lincoln, but this was reduced by expiring militia enlistments to 500 in mid-March. [1]
The German Valley Historic District is a 69-acre (28 ha) historic district located in the Long Valley section of Washington Township in Morris County, New Jersey. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 14, 1983, for its significance in agriculture, education, transportation, industry, and religion.
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.
The New York and New Jersey campaign in 1776 and the winter months of 1777 was a series of American Revolutionary War battles for control of the Port of New York and the state of New Jersey, fought between British forces under General Sir William Howe and the Continental Army under General George Washington.