On this day in 1777,
Brig. Gen. Philemon Dickinson leads 400 “raw” men from the New Jersey militia and 50 Pennsylvania riflemen under Captain Robert Durkee in an attack against a group of 500 British soldiers foraging for food led by Lt. Col. Robert Abercromby near Van Nest’s Mills at The Battle of Millstone, NJ.
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Brig. Gen. Philemon Dickinson leads 400 “raw” men from the New Jersey militia and 50 Pennsylvania riflemen under Captain Robert Durkee in an attack against a group of 500 British soldiers foraging for food led by Lt. Col. Robert Abercromby near Van Nest’s Mills at The Battle of Millstone, NJ.
More Colonial Battles
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