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This week episode 254, The Battle of Springfield.

Last time we covered General Wilhelm von Nipphausen's foray into New Jersey on June 6th through 8th,

1780, where he hoped to attack the Continental Headquarters at Morristown, but ended up doing little more than

burning the village of Connecticut Farms. When Niphausen launched the attack, he had done so at the urging of men like Governor Franklin,

Governor and General James Robertson, and former Governor and still current Major General William Tryon. These men and other leading loyalists had been receiving

word that the Continental Army was on the brink of collapse after the harsh winter at

Morristown and that it was still not getting spring reinforcements

that they expected.

The loyalists were all saying that the people of New Jersey were tired of war and would

gladly rally around any British advance into New Jersey, if only to end the fighting.

Niphausen came to believe that he had an opportunity to deal a death blow to the Continental Army

before the French Army could land in America and perhaps getting full credit for the

victory by attacking before British General Henry Clinton returned from South Carolina.

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