Friday, June 26, 2009

This Day in History: June 26

At the Battle of the Short Hills on the 26th, at four in the morning, Lord Cornwallis marched from Amboy with upwards to 5,000 troops. He met Lord Sterling's Brigade of about 1,400 men and lost 3 pieces of cannon, 70 prisoners, and about 100 men killed and wounded. (June 26, 1777) [More]

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