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REVOLUTIONARY ROADS takes readers on a time-traveling adventure through the crucial places American independence was won and might have been lost. You’ll ride shotgun with Bob Thompson as he puts more than 20,000 miles on his car, not to mention his legs; walks history-shaping battlefields from Georgia to Quebec;

The Revolutionary War was nearing its end in early 1783. In his Hudson Highlands stronghold, General Washington kept a wary eye on the British force in New York City, 60 miles away.

The Battle of Harlem Heights is an under appreciated milestone in American military history. The engagement on upper Manhattan Island on September 16, 1776, was the first successful battle for George Washington’s troops in the quest for independence from Great Britain and presaged the emergence of an effective fighting force among the citizen-soldiers who made up the Continental Army.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden greet French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron as they arrive for a State Dinner on the North Portico of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) (Patrick Semansky/AP)

It is profoundly fitting that the honor of the first State Dinner of the Biden administration was bestowed this month upon France’s President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte.

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New York City, the strategic center of the Revolutionary War, was the most important place in North America in 1776. That summer, an unruly rebel army under George Washington repeatedly threatened to burn the city rather than let the British take it.

Here’s a quick update from our friends at the Odell House;

We’re thrilled to announce two wonderful awards!

The Town of Greenburgh was awarded $500,000 in New York State Environmental Protection Funds for another phase of restoration for OHRH.

Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route and the Franco-American Alliance, a must-have reference on the trail researched, written and illustrated by Donna Passmore and Jan Smulcer, is out now!

The Battle of Rhode Island Association announces the addition of Dereke Mays and Nick Hardisty
as Directors to the Board. Dereke Mays will be representing the Newport NAACP. Nick Hardisty
comes on board representing Tall Ships America. Also retired Navy Capt. Dr. Murray Norcross
has joined the Board as an Advisor on Grants.

Dereke and the Newport Chapter of the NAACP have been the leaders in commemorating the
lives and memories of the First Black Regiment….[Read More]

In late August 1776, a badly defeated Continental Army retreated from Long Island to Manhattan. By the end of September, George Washington’s inexperienced army had been forced out of New York into New Jersey and, by the end of the year, into Pennsylvania.

Bill Conley delivered a lecture on the National Trail to members of St Joe R C Church in Wilmington.