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THIS FIELD HONORS CHIEF ABRAHAM NINHAM AND THE 17 MOCHICAN INDIANS WHO DIED HERE DURING A MISSION TO AID THE AMERICANS IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. THIS BATTLE WAS THE ONLY REVOLUTIONARY WAR BATTLE TO OCCUR ENTIRELY WITHIN THE BOUNDS OF TODAY'S VAN CORTLANDT ...

TO COMMEMORATE THE ADOPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SEPT. 17, 1787

THIS MEMORIAL IS DEDICATED TO THE MEN OF WOODLAWN HEIGHTS, BRONX WHO SERVED IN WORLD WAR I.

SEE ALSO-BROOKLYN KOREAN WAR VETERANS PLAZA ENTRANCE STONE

"THEY SOUGHT NO GLORY BUT THEIR COUNTRY'S GOOD." THIS MEMORIAL HONORS THE MEMORY OF THOSE MEN FROM THE 8TH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN MILITARY SERVICE DURING WORLD WAR I.

BARRETT SIGNED WITH THE 175TH NEW YORK VOLUNTEER INFANTRY REGIMENT AT THE OUTBREAK OF THE CIVIL WAR.HE EARNED THE RANK OF MAJOR AFTER SERVING GALLANTLY DURING THE UNION SIEGE OF MOBILE, ALABAMA. THIS BRONZE CLASSICAL WARRIOR FIGURE WAS GIVEN TO NEW YOR ...

CHESTER ALAN ARTHUR TWENTY-FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. DURING THE CIVIL WAR HE SERVED THE UNION AS INSPECTOR-GENERAL AND THEN QUARTERMASTER, IN CHARGE OF PROVIDING EQUIPMENT, CLOTHING AND SUPPLIES TO THOSE TROOPS IN NEW YORK

CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENT SERGEANT CORNELIUS H. CHARLTON MOVED TO THE BRONX, WHERE HE ENLISTED IN THE ARMY AT THE ONSET OF THE KOREAN WAR 1950-1953. CHARLTON VOLUNTEERED FOR COMBAT DUTY WITH COMPANY C, 24TH INFANTRY REGIMENT OF THE 25TH INFAN ...

GENERAL PORTER IS REPUTED TO HAVE BEEN THE FIRST HARVARD COLLEGE GRADUATE TO ENLIST IN THE UNION ARMY DURING THE WAR. HE COMMANDED THE 22ND REGIMENT OF THE NATIONAL GUARD OF NEW YORK (WHO WOULD SPONSOR THIS STATUE).

DEDICATED IN HONOR OF THE EMPLOYEES OF THE NEW YORK POST OFFICE WHO PLACED THEIR LIVES IN THE HANDS OF THEIR COUNTRY IN VINDICATION OF RIGHT AND JUSTICE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD "GOD GRANTS LIBERTY ONLY TO THOSE WHO LOVE IT AND ARE ALWAYS READY TO DEFEND IT. ...

THESE OUR HONORED DEAD AND RETURNED HEROES WILL BE REMEMBERED WITH OUR ETERNAL PRAYERS THAT THEIR SACRIFICES WERE NOT IN VAIN-ALBERT GOLDMAN-POSTMASTER

ERECTED TO HONOR THE MEMORY OF THE VALIANT CITIZENS OF THIS COMMUNITY WHO SERVED IN THE AMERICAN FORCES THAT WON OUR LIBERTY IN THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE 1775-1781 TO THESE, AND THEIR COMRADES IN ARMS WE OWE THE BIRTH OF LIBERTY ON THESE SHORES, AND WE REDE ...

The "LOST BATTALION" OF WORLD WAR I FAME WAS COMPOSED OF SIX COMPANIES OF THE 77TH'S 308TH INFANTRY REGIMENT AND ONE FROM THE 307TH INFANTRY REGIMENT. IN WORLD WAR II THE DIVISION FOUGHT ON SEVERAL ISLANDS IN THE PACIFIC. NICKNAMED THE "STATUE OF LIBERTY ...

BURIED AT THIS MEMORIAL PARK CEMETERY IS COLONEL JEROMUS REMSEN WHO FOUGHT IN THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. COLONEL REMSEN WAS A TRUE AMERICAN PATRIOT AND HERO AT THE BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND, ALSO KNOWN AS THE BATTLE OF BROOKLYN. S ...

SEE ALSO-REMSEN MEMORIAL PARK SEE ALSO-RMESEN MEMORIAL PARK CEMETERY

BURIED AT THIS MEMORIAL PARK AND CEMETERY IS COLONEL JEROMUS REMSEN WHO FOUGHT IN THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. COLONEL REMSEN WAS A TRUE AMERICAN PATRIOT AND HERO AT THE BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND, ALSO KNOWN AS THE BATTLE OF BROOKLYN ...