BATTLE PASS REVOLUTIONARY WAR MEMORIAL
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.
Listing Details
- Public
- REVOLUTIONARY WAR
- Plaques On Stone
- 1929 RE-DEDICATED 1991
- PROSPECT PARK-EAST DRIVE
- 11215
- COURTESY OF NYC PARKS ART & ANTIQUITIES
- COURTESY OF NYC PARKS ART & ANTIQUITIES
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