BATTLE PASS REVOLUTIONARY WAR MEMORIAL
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Listing Details
Type of Memorial: Plaques On Stone
Year Dedicated: 1929 RE-DEDICATED 1991
Access: Public
Wars Commemorated: REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Photograph By: COURTESY OF NYC PARKS ART & ANTIQUITIES
Submitted By: COURTESY OF NYC PARKS ART & ANTIQUITIES
HERE THE AMERICAN FORCES STOOD THEIR GROUND AGAINST THE HESSIANS COMING FROM THE SOUTH TILL FLANKED FROM THE RIVER BY A BODY OF BRITISH TROOPS. GENERAL SULLIVAN WAS CAPTURED, BUT MOST OF HIS TROOPS RETREATED ACROSS WHAT IS NOW THE LONG MEADOW, JOINING THE MARYLAND AND OTHER TROOPS FOR THE FINAL RESISTANCE NEAR THE OLD STONE HOUSE OF GOWANUS.
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