"The Times That Try Men's Souls"

"Retreat Weekend," Fort Lee Historic Park, Nov. 2007

 Participant Schedule of Events


 Saturday, November 17th

  8:00 AM        Hikers join volunteer group of Crown Forces in march from Kearney House to Fort Lee Historic Park.

  9:30 AM        Unit commanders meeting on patio of visitor’s center.

10:00 AM        Formations in camps- Crown at Blockhouse, Congressional forces at huts. Guards mounted, work details posted.

10:30 AM        Volunteer Congressional force leaves Fort Lee to meet hikers on trail.

11:15 AM        Arrival at fort of hikers.

11:45 AM        Formation for parade to Monument Park

12:00 Noon      Parade to Monument Park

  1:00 PM         Lunch at huts.

  1:45 PM         Pay Call in respective camps.

  2:15 PM         Artillery demonstration.

  3:00 PM         Formation for Battle of the Blockhouse.

  5:00 PM         Site closed.


 Sunday, November 18th

11:00 AM        Formations in camps- Congressional Forces at Blockhouse, Crown forces at huts. Guards mounted, work details posted.

12:00 Noon      Lunch at huts.

  1:00 PM         Courts martial in each camp.

  1:30 PM         Crown recruiting party 

  1:45 PM         Crown Field maneuvers

  2:00 PM         Congressional recruiting party

  2:15 PM         Congressional Field maneuvers

  2:30 PM         Congressional punishment of criminal.

  3:00 PM         Artillery demonstration. 

Work parties will be needed each day for the kitchen, wood cutting, and fortifying the blockhouse area.  Please bring whatever period axes, saws and fascine knives you may have, as they will be needed and used!


Back | Up

Home
Up
Schedule of Events
Album
Letter: Oct. 1776
Invasion Account
Cornwallis Correspondence
Letter: Aug. 1780
Fort Lee Blockhouse
Participant Information

 

[Home]

Palisades Interstate Park NJ Section
P.O. Box 155 • Alpine, New Jersey 07620
201 768-1360 (voice) • 201 767-3842 (fax)
mail@njpalisades.org

Links to pages outside the njpalisades.org domain are provided when we think such pages will be of interest to visitors and friends of the NJ Section of the Palisades Interstate Park. We cannot verify the accuracy of information or be responsible for the quality of content displayed on pages with URLs outside the njpalisades.org domain.

Copyright © 1998 – 2008
Palisades Interstate Park Commission