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Hudson River chain.
The obstruction of the Hudson River, to prevent British vessels passing up during the Revolutionary War, and thus defeat the ministerial project for dividing the Union, occupied much of the attention of the patriots.
First there were vessels sunk, and a sort of chevaux-de-frise constructed in the channel between Fort Washington, on Manhattan Island, and the Palisades.
Great chain and mortars.
Chevaux-de-frise were placed in the channel between Pollopel's Island and the western shore of the river, just above the upper entrance to the Highlands.
A chain and boom were stretched across the river from Anthony's Nose to Fort Montgomery, at the lower entrance to the Highlands.
In the spring of 1778 the most notable of all these obstructions, a heavy chain supported by huge logs, was stretched across the Hudson from West Point to Constitution Island, opposite.
It was constructed at the Stirling Iron Works, in Warwick, Orange co., by Peter Townsend, under the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Amsterdam. (search)
New Amsterdam.
The village that grew around the trading-post on Manhattan Island was called Manhattan until the arrival of Governor Stuyvesant, in 1647, when it was called New Amsterdam.
Fort Amsterdam, a large work with four angles, and faced with solid stone, had been built by Governor Minuit on the southern point of the island.
The village grew apace.
Its ways were crooked, its houses straggling, and its whole aspect was unattractive until, under the new administration, improvements were begun, when it contained about 800 people They were under the immediate government of the director-general, and there was much restiveness under the rigorous rule of Stuyvesant, who opposed every concession to the popular will.
They asked for a municipal government, but one was not granted until 1652, and in 1653 a city government was organized, much after the model of old Amsterdam, but with less political freedom.
The soul of Stuyvesant was troubled by this imprudent intrusting of pow
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stuyvesant , Peter 1602 -1682 (search)
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Washington, Fort, capture of
On the day of the battle of White Plains in 1776, General Knyphausen, with six German regiments, crossed the Harlem River and encamped on the flat below Fort Washington and King's Bridge.
That fort was a strong work, supported by outlying redoubts.
It was on the highest point of land on Manhattan Island.
When Washington heard of the peril that menaced it, he advised General Greene, in whose charge both it and Fort Lee, on the top of the palisades on the west side of the Hudson River, had been left, to withdraw the garrison and stores, but left the matter to that officer's discretion.
When he arrived there (Nov. 15) he was disappointed in not finding his wishes gratified.
Greene desired to hold the fort as a protection to the river; the Congress had ordered it to be held till the last extremity, and Col. Robert Magaw, its commander, said he could hold out against the whole British army until December.
Washington was not satisfied of its safety,