If you missed the recent March to Yorktown event at the Brick Academy, all is not lost. The video of the July 6th panel discussion is now available at: Watch as historians Dr. Robb Haberman and Dr. Robert Selig describe the 700-mile trek of over 4,000 French soldiers from Newport, RI, to Yorktown, VA; their
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In the winter of 1777, after the battle of Princeton, while the American army was encamped at Morristown, NJ, General Washington sent a division under General Nathanael Greene to Basking Ridge, about four miles to the south. A document called “A General Return of Waggons [sic] and Horses….,” relating to this time was received last year
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Even in the heat of battle, there are moments that unite us as human beings. One such moment occurred on January 5, 1777 in Pluckemin, NJ. British Army Officer Capt. William Leslie, son of a Scottish nobleman, had been mortally wounded by the Continental Army at the Battle of Princeton January 3, 1777. He was
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Everyone knows General Charles Lee was captured in Basking Ridge during the Revolutionary War, but who was his second in command? In 1776, American General Charles Lee was taking his time moving his division across New Jersey to join the main army of George Washington, who he resented serving under. Lee stayed too long at
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