Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Col. Robert Magaw, the Defender of Fort Washington, Major in Colonel William Thompson's "Battalion of Pennsylvania Riflemen," the First Troops From the South to Reach Boston: Paper Read Before the Hamilton Library Association, Carlisle, Pa., The Historical Society of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
Hardly second to the loss of men was the loss of munitions of war, which had been collected by a supreme effort, and included 40 cannon. But to this loss must be added the still more serious one of cannon and munitions, resulting from the immediate and hasty abandonment of Fort Lee, on the opposite bank of the Hudson, necessitated by the surrender of Fort Washington.
But even more. Depressing to the hopes of the patriots than the loss of men and munitions, and the whole series of dis asters leading up to. The fall of Fort Washington, was the strategic loss of that point on the Hudson. New York.
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