Over at News12NJ, a tour of New York City's Harbor Defenses.
The tour runs up the Hudson River past Fort Washington, lost in 1776 to a bloody British assault, and Fort Lee, hastily and wisely evacuated by General Washington after the loss of the former. From there the tour goes way up river to West Point.
We grew up half an hour or so away from the academy. Every year our school went on a tour of the place. Our elementary school was Furnace Woods, so named because the chain stretched across the Hudson during the Revolutionary War was smelted in the woods around the school. Furnace Woods Elementary lies on Watch Hill Road, so named....well reader(s) will get the idea. Well into the 20th century, we were told by the district's old bus drivers, people dug up Revolutionary War relics at old Continental redoubts on Charles Point and Indian Point.
Anyway, if reader(s) want to visualize the defenses smashed by the Royal Navy in Palmerston's Ironclads, there they are.
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