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Local resident, Bob A. Mayers is returning to discuss his new book that was released on August 15, 2021.
The Revolutionary War encampments of George Washington’s Continental Army at Middlebrook and nearby Pluckemin, New Jersey, have been neglected in history. These places were critical to the American struggle during the Middle Atlantic campaigns.
The highlands and surrounding valleys of this natural fortress was the location of two major encampments of Washington’s Continental Army. A harrowing seven weeks during the early summer of 1777, and during the entire winter of 1778-1779. What is astonishing is the American Army spent close to nine months here, yet this hub of the American Revolution languished in obscurity and virtually disappeared from national awareness for over two hundred years.
Unlike Valley Forge and Jockey Hollow, that have been so eulogized, that they are familiar to most school children, this sacred land, where decisive events occurred that changed the course of the war, is now built over by suburban creep, rarely marked and fading from the collective American memory.
Author: Mayers is an active member of ten historical societies and a frequent speaker and contributor to various publications. He has given his presentations at West Point and the Pentagon, and has recently been featured on Comcast TV and published in the History Channel Magazine and Garden State Legacy, an online publication. He served as a combat officer in both the Navy and Marine Corps. His military experiences provide him with a deeper perspective of the campaigns and battles depicted in his works.
At the conclusion of the program feel free to take a brief online survey here: https://www.projectoutcome.org/responses/58879
