Refugees attempting to build the blockhouse on the remains of the fort never mounted ... cannons although they may have had at least one with them.

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It's paper archaeology from the pension applications, the newspaper accounts, the correspondence of George Washington, and some British journals.

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The Loyal Refugee Volunteers were not members of the regular British Army. Their job was to cut wood for the British, who would pay them for it. To supplement that wood income, they raided into the Bergen County countryside to take horses and cattle, which they then would sell.

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The ruins were still there and it was still a strategic point. It had a ferry crossing and was adjacent to the English Neighborhood [Edgewater, Fort Lee, Leonia and Englewood] as well as Closter, Tenafly, and Teaneck.

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It was the only time in the war ... that the whole Bergen County militia turned out as one.

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