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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

The Forgotten Forage War of 1777: Realities of the Revolution

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, Politics, History

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Did New Jersey Save the Revolutionary Cause? Maybe. Amid a sea of troubles, irregular units fight off the British and make their stay in New Jersey less than hospitable. A bit about George Washington's offensive campaign to be sure that the new nation would not be garrisoned. And it happened in New Jersey (we should be clear with a large contingent of soldiers from all across the Eastern Seaboard). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Well, the foraging was going well for the large force of British regulars and Hessians,

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some 500, as they rated the western part of New Jersey looking for food and supplies.

0:48.0

Specifically, the Van Nest Mill in the town of Milestone,

0:52.0

bags of flour were loaded upon wagon train.

0:56.0

This would help the British get through their 1777 winter.

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And just to be sure there'd be no trouble with the foraging party,

1:03.0

they came in big numbers with soldiers and brought cannon,

1:07.0

which they aimed at a bridge nearby.

1:11.0

So it must have been a surprise when out of the shadows,

1:16.0

an equal force of armed riflemen, colonial militias,

1:21.0

which would turn out they couldn't know this appeared.

1:26.0

They had done the unthinkable, broken up ice and forwarded in an icy river,

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holding their rifles up to the other side of the bank,

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