The Battle of Fort Montgomery

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Fort Montgomery and Fort Clinton, located just north of Bear Mountain and south of West Point, were built for the defense of the Hudson Highlands in 1776. It was here that British and loyalist troops overwhelmed Brigadier General George Clinton’s outnumbered patriots in October 1777. Although the Americans lost the battle for the Highlands, it was the heroic efforts of the men at Forts Montgomery and Clinton, that may have saved the day and turned the tide of the war. A relative handful of Americans aided in delaying British reinforcements from joining General John Burgoyne in the upper Hudson Valley and allowed General Horatio Gates to gain much needed military reinforcements in time to ultimately win Burgoyne’s surrender at Saratoga. Author: Jan Sheldon Conley.

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