| New Jersey (Gloucester County), National Park — Battle of Red Bank |
| | This monument was erected on the 22 Oct 1829 to transmit positively a grateful remembrance of the patriotism & gallantry of Lieuit Colonel Christopher Greene who with 400 men defeated the Hessian army of 2000 troops then in the British Service at Red Bank on the 22nd Oct. 1777. Among the wounded was found their commander Count Donop who died of his wounds and whose body is interred near the spot where he fell. Side of Monument: A number of the New Jersey & Pennsylvania Volunteers being . . . — Map (db m13434) |
| New Jersey (Gloucester County), National Park — Brigadier General Hugh Mercer |
| | Brigadier General Hugh Mercer Soldier – Patriot – Physician for whom Fort Mercer was named in the spring of 1777 Born 1725, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Died Jan. 12, 1777, Princeton, N.J. Presented October 25, 1970 to the County of Gloucester by members and friends of the St. Andrew’s Society of Philadelphia of which General Mercer became a member in 1757. Carl Lindborg Artist • Sculptor “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” Thomas Paine “The . . . — Map (db m13406) |
| New Jersey (Gloucester County), National Park — Colonel Christopher Greene |
| | Front of Monument: Upon this spot on October 22, 1777 Colonel Christopher Greene of the First Rhode Island Continentals with four hundred officers and men of the First and Second Rhode Island regiments successfully defended Fort Mercer against an assault of two thousand Hessians in the British service. The attacking force was disastrously defeated with the loss of its commander Count von Donop thirty-six officers and nearly six hundred men. The American loss was thirty-seven. Right . . . — Map (db m13409) |
| New Jersey (Gloucester County), National Park — Fort Mercer — Red Bank, New Jersey |
| | General Thaddeus Kosciuszko contributed his engineering skills to the fortification of the Delaware River during the American Revolution which prevented the British Navy from entering Philadelphia in the fall of 1777. This was the second engineering assignment General Kosciuszko received from the Continental Congress. Designated a Kosciuszko Military Engineering site by THE COPERNICUS SOCIETY OF AMERICA under the authority of a Concurrent Resolution of The U.S. Congress – S. Con. . . . — Map (db m13435) |
| New Jersey (Gloucester County), National Park — Fort Mercer at Red Bank / Fort Mercer is Alerted |
| | [Fort Mercer at Red Bank Side]: Late in September 1777, Philadelphia was captured by British General William Howe, with a serious disadvantage. Extensive American river defenses blocked the shipping of food and supplies to the British army and citizens of Philadelphia. A major attack was planned against the garrison at Fort Mercer. A British brigade of about 1200 Hessians under Colonel Carl Emil Ulrich Von Donop was ferried over to Coopers Ferry (now Camden) spending the night in . . . — Map (db m13437) |
| New Jersey (Gloucester County), National Park — James and Ann Whitall House |
| | James Whitall, a wealthy Quaker farmer and merchant, and his wife Ann Cooper built the main brick section in 1748. On April 16, 1777, the Pennsylvania militia commandeered the farm and built Fort Mercer in the northern apple orchard. Son Job Whitall noted in his diary on October 10, 1777 that the Americans “turned us out of our kitchens ye largest room upstairs and ye shop and took our hay to feed the horses.” That day Colonel Christopher Greene had arrived to command the fort and . . . — Map (db m13439) |
| New Jersey (Gloucester County), National Park — Marvin C. Creamer |
| | In commemoration First Round the World Voyage without navigational instruments by Marvin C. Creamer Departed December 15, 1982 Returned May 20, 1984 — Map (db m20046) |
| New Jersey (Gloucester County), National Park — Operations on the Delaware |
| | When the Revolution began, Congress ordered construction of river defense systems to protect Philadelphia against a sea attack. A system of cheveaux-de-fries, a series of underwater obstructions, was developed. These consisted of large coffers (boxes) made of pine logs lined with planking. Long, heavy poles with iron tipped spikes projected out of the coffers at a 45 degree angle. The coffers were floated to strategic positions in the Delaware, filled with rock and sunk just below water level . . . — Map (db m13438) |
| New Jersey (Gloucester County), National Park — Whitall House — -- Built 1748 -- |
| | Col. Carl von Donop and his Hessians were treated here for wounds after their defeat at the siege of Red Bank, Oct. 22, 1777. — Map (db m13410) |
| New Jersey (Gloucester County), Swedesboro — Stratton Hall |
| | Charles C. Stratton was borne here, March 6, 1796. He was the first New Jersey governor elected by the people, 1845. — Map (db m25578) |
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