BATTLE OF SECOND RIVER WAR MEMORIAL
ON THE MORNING OF SEPTEMBER 12, 1777 BRITISH TROOPS COMMANDED BY GENERAL SIR HENRY CLINTON ATTEMPTED TO CROSS THE SECOND RIVER. HE WAS MET BY LOCAL MEN OF THE SECOND ESSEX REGIMENT AND MILITIA FROM UNION AND MORRIS COUNTY. UNABLE TO CROSS BECAUSE OF THESE FORTIFIED AMERICAN TROOPS GENERAL CLINTON SENT FOR REINFORCEMENTS. WITH BRITISH REINFORCEMENTS OUTNUMBERING THE AMERICANS THEY RETREATED TO BLOOMFIELD. TWO AMERICANS WERE KILLED IN THE BATTLE OF SECOND RIVER. BRITISH CASUALTIES WERE HIGHER, WITH EIGHT MEN KILLED, EIGHTEEN ENLISTED MEN AND ONE OFFICER WOUNDED, TEN MISSING AND FIVE TAKEN PRISONER.
Location
Address:
BRANCH BROOK PARK-MILL STREET AND PARK DRIVE
City:
BELLEVILLE
State:
New Jersey
Zip Code:
07109
Details
Memorial Type:
Plaques On Stone
Access:
Public
Wars Commemorated:
REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Year Dedicated:
1932
Photograph By:
BILL COUGHLIN
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