Battle of Fort Montgomery and Fort Clinton

QUICK FACTS

MAPS OF THE BATTLE

The Battle of Fort Montgomery, Overview, 5—6-Oct-1777

The Battle of Fort Montgomery, British Attack, Dusk, 6-Oct-1777

Maps courtesy of the Department of History,
United States Military Academy

LINKS

All Battle Maps
SITE: The History Department at the United States Military Academy

Portrait to come. See entry in Wikipedia.

Associated with

Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense (1775), urging the colonies to declare their independence, found 150,000 purchasers in a population of less than 3 million — the equivalent today of a sale of 14 million.

— Richard Brookhiser

Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution (2003)