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Four markers on Main Street that describe the American Army’s retreat from Fort Lee.
By Bill Coughlin, November 23, 2013
Washington’s Retreat to Victory Marker
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
| On Main Street at Central Road, on the right when traveling west on Main Street. |
| | This retreat route on Main Street in Fort Lee, N.J. enabled General George Washington’s army to escape capture from the British and prevent the end of the War for Independence. Patriot and soldier Thomas Paine wrote about his experience in Fort Lee . . . — — Map (db m70376) HM |
| On Main Street at Schlosser Street (County Route 67), on the right when traveling west on Main Street. |
| | New Jersey is known as the Crossroads of the American Revolution and this Fort Lee crossroad on Main Street represents one of the most important sites in the United States. Here, on present day Main Street, Major General Nathanael Greene led the . . . — — Map (db m70375) HM |
| On Main Street west of Center Avenue, on the right when traveling west. |
| | British Lieutenant General Charles Lord Cornwallis and five thousand of his troops crossed the Hudson River and made their way to Fort Lee from Huyler’s Landing Road on November 20th, 1776. General Nathanael Greene, warned of the invasion by a . . . — — Map (db m70384) HM |
| On Main Street at Jones Road, on the left when traveling west on Main Street. |
| | The Continental Army’s retreat route ran from the bluffs of Fort Lee’s Palisades, site of the American fortifications and nearby encampment, west on Fort Lee Road (present day Main Street) and continued west through the current towns of Leonia, . . . — — Map (db m70433) HM |
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