FEBRUARY 9, 1778 REVOLUTIONARY WAR MEMORIAL
SIXTEEN AMERICAN SOLDIERS GUARDING MILITARY UNIFORMS BEING MANUFACTURED ON THESE PREMISES WERE OVERPOWERED BY A RAIDING PARTY OF FORTY ENEMY CAVALRYMEN AND INFANTRYMEN. IN THE HEROIC BUT HOPELESS DEFENSE OF THEIR POST, FIVE GUARDS WERE KILLED BY GUNFIRE, FOUR MORE WOUNDED, AND THE OTHERS TAKEN PRISONER OF WAR, ONE OF WHOM WAS MAJOR FRANCIS MURRAY.
Location
Details
Memorial Type:
Plaques On Stone
Access:
Public
Wars Commemorated:
REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Year Dedicated:
1976
Photograph By:
WILLIAM FISCHER, JR.
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