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General Henry Clinton by Andrea Soldi. Washington's preference for a professional standing army rather than a militia had been another source of criticism. [20] He had seen his army dissolve in the fall of 1775 as short-term enlistments expired, and blamed his defeat in the Battle of Long Island in August 1776 in part on a poorly performing militia. [21]
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Battle of Monmouth painting shows George Washington rallying his men while an embarrassed Charles Lee waits nearby. The Battle of Monmouth on June 28, 1778, saw a colonial American army under Major General George Washington fight a British army led by Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton .
Battle of Trois-Rivières: June 8, 1776: Quebec: British victory: Americans forced to evacuate Quebec [26] Battle of Sullivan's Island: June 28, 1776: South Carolina: American victory: British attack on Charleston is repulsed [27] Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet: June 29, 1776: New Jersey: American victory [28] Battle of Gwynn's Island: July 8–10 ...
Monmouth Battlefield State Park is a 1,818-acre (7.36 km 2) [4] New Jersey state park located on the border of Manalapan and Freehold Township, in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. This park preserves the historical battlefield on which the American Revolutionary War 's Battle of Monmouth (1778) was waged.
Utilized during the battle by the British Army as a hospital, it is one of many 18th century farmhouses that have been preserved at Monmouth Battlefield State Park. The Craig House is located in Freehold Township. Monmouth Battlefield is administered by the New Jersey State Park Service. [2]
Molly Pitcher Inn is a hotel in Red Bank, New Jersey, not far from the site of the Battle of Monmouth. Molly Pitcher Service Area is a rest area on the New Jersey Turnpike (I-95) in Cranbury, New Jersey. The Molly Pitcher Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race raced annually during the last week of August at Monmouth Park in Oceanport ...
Map of Alabama during the War of 1812. Fort Armstrong and Turkeytown are located in the upper right. [1]Turkeytown (Cherokee: "Gun'-di'ga-duhun'yi"), sometimes called "Turkey's Town", was a small Cherokee village that once stretched for approximately 25 miles along both banks of the Coosa River, and became the largest of the contemporary Cherokee towns.