New Jersey in the American Revolution

New Jersey in the American Revolution
Author: Barbara J. Mitnick
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2007-03-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 081354095X


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This remarkably comprehensive anthology brings new life to the rich and turbulent late 18th-century period in New Jersey. Originally conceived for the state's 225th Anniversary of the Revolution Celebration Commission.

George Washington's New Jersey

George Washington's New Jersey
Author: Craig Mitchell
Publisher: B B& A Publishers
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2003
Genre: Historic buildings
ISBN: 9780970580412


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From 1776 to 1781 - the key years if the War of the American Revolution - George Washington fought primarily in New Jersey. He battled not only the British army and their Loyalist and Hessian allies, he battled with Congress, with the weather, for food and military supplies, with disease, and with some of his own generals. In New Jersey you can find more open-to-the-public scenes of his actions than in any other state. George Washington's New Jersey leads you through the war and through these houses and battlefields - places like Trenton and Princeton, where Washington's daring nine-day campaign changed the course of world history. Explore homes like the Ford Mansion in Morristown where Martha joined him during the coldest winter of the entire century, far worse than the winter in Valley Forge. Trace the action at the forgotten battle of Springfield, when 6,000 British struck twice, two weeks apart and under two different generals. And America's amateur soldiers stopped them both times! New Jersey was the most fought-over, bloodiest, burnt-out of the thirteen original colonies. It saw more action than any other colony. It was also the most central colony, so that no matter where in America the fighting was, the troops had to cross through New Jersey to get to it. Let George Washington's New Jersey be your guide to this historic ground.

A Guide to New Jersey's Revolutionary War Trail

A Guide to New Jersey's Revolutionary War Trail
Author: Mark Di Ionno
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780813527703


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Listing more than 350 historic sites throughout the state, this book is the most complete guide ever to the Revolutionary War in the Garden State.

A Revolutionary Time

A Revolutionary Time
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 24
Release: 1998
Genre: Historic sites
ISBN:


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The Revolutionary War in the Hackensack Valley

The Revolutionary War in the Hackensack Valley
Author: Adrian Coulter Leiby
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1980
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780813508986


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After November 1776, the Hackensack Valley--located in northeastern New Jersey and Rockland County, New York--lay between the invading British army in New York City and the main Continental defense forces in the Hudson Highlands. Jersey Dutch patriot and Tory troops carried on a five-year war of neighbors between the lines, while the grand armies of Britain and America maneuvered on either side of them for a chance to strike a blow at the other. Adrian Leiby offers an exciting narrative of the people of Dutch New Jersey and New York during this conflict. Historians will find colorful details about the Revolutionary War, and genealogists will find much previously unpublished material on hundreds of men and women of Dutch New Jersey and New York in the 1700s.

"The New Jersey Volunteers" (loyalists) in the Revolutionary War

Author: William Scudder Stryker
Publisher: [Trenton, N.J.? : s.n.], 1887 (Trenton, N.J. : Naar, Day & Naar)
Total Pages: 78
Release: 1867
Genre: American Confederate voluntary exiles
ISBN:


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Revolutionary New Jersey

Revolutionary New Jersey
Author: Robert Adrian Mayers
Publisher: Ahp American History Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2018
Genre: New Jersey
ISBN: 9781939995292


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Many of the critical events and dreadful realities of the intense warfare in New Jersey during the American Revolution have been forgotten, neglected, or lost to history. Sites in the Garden State where patriots fought and died remain unmarked, shrouded in mystery, clouded in mythology, or concealed by obscure accounts and dull statistics. Many places in the "Crossroads of the Revolution" state have entirely disappeared, while others languish unnoticed or have been built over by town development and local highways. Many of the Garden State residents who commute every day over heavily trafficked streets are completely unaware of the fierce struggles that occurred along their route during America's most important war. In "Revolutionary New Jersey" New Jersey-based author Robert Mayers has rediscovered and revived the history of previously forsaken locations by exploring them in person. He then enhances his observations from on-site visits with fresh research from original documents, often discovered in obscure British, Hessian and French records. The reader is subsequently transported to the battlefields and encampments in three theaters of the conflict in New Jersey- "The War in the Countryside," "The War at the Shore" and "New Jersey Campgrounds"-by describing Revolutionary events which occurred in more than 100 present-day towns. This narrative escorts readers back in time to feel, see, and hear the action that occurred over 200 years ago in familiar settings. It is hoped that all readers of Bob Mayers's newest book will acquire a new respect for the Revolutionary War events that took place locally (and in some instances in their own backyards). It is through this awareness that local sites might be maintained, and the glorious memory of those individuals who fought for our freedom preserved for the future.