The Forgotten Forage War of 1777: Realities of the Revolution
My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
Bruce Carlson
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🗓️ 29 November 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. |
| 0:04.8 | How's the business going? |
| 0:06.2 | We're busier than ever, but struggling to get the staff we need. |
| 0:08.8 | Recruiting can be such a distraction. |
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| 0:36.7 | Well, the forging was going well for the large force of British regulars and Hessians, |
| 0:42.1 | some 500, as they rated the western part of New Jersey, looking for food and supplies. |
| 0:50.9 | Specifically, the Van Nest Mill in the town of Millstone millstone bags of flour were loaded upon wagon train |
| 0:57.2 | this would help the british get through their 1777 winter and just to be sure there'd be no |
| 1:04.0 | trouble with the foraging party they came in big numbers with soldiers and brought cannon |
| 1:09.8 | which they aimed at a bridge nearby. |
| 1:13.9 | So it must have been a surprise when, out of the shadows, an equal force of armed riflemen, |
| 1:23.1 | colonial militias, it would turn out, they couldn't know this, appeared. |
| 1:30.3 | They had done the unthinkable, broken up ice, and forded in an icy river, holding their rifles up. |
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