The Bridge That Saved A Nation Traditional Cache

New Bridge Landing

George Washington saved his army from certain defeat in November 1776, inspiring Thomas Paine's American Crisis. "Our first object was to secure the bridge over the Hackensack, which laid up the river between the enemy and us..."

New Bridge was a strategic river crossing throughout the American Revolution. Its homes served as military headquarters. Deadly skirmishes echoed about its walls, earthworks were thrown upon its hills, and consuming armies camped upon its fields. Soldiers passed this gateway so often that the Steuben House is said to have seen more of the Revolution than any other house in America.

Revolutionary Figures who were here at one point during the American Revolution:

• George Washington
• Aaron Burr
• Alexander Hamilton
• Thomas Paine
• Major General Friedrich Wilhelm Baron von Steuben
• Major General Marie Joseph du Motier
• Marquis de LaFayette
• Major General Nathanael Greene
• Major General Anthony Wayne
• Royal Governor William Franklin
• Lt. Col. Henry Lee
• Capt. John Outwater
• Major John Andre
• Lt. General Sir Henry Clinton
• Lieutenant General Charles Lord Cornwallis
• Major General Charles Grey
• Capt. Patrick Ferguson
• Col. Francis Lord Rawdon
• Lt. Col. Stephen Kemble
• Capt. Johann Ewald
• Brigadier General Cortland Skinner
• Lt. James Moody

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