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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEB3_m1857-12-pounder-napoleon_Delaware-City-NY.html
This was the standard smoothbore fieldpiece of the Civil War. Our specimen is a rare early model distinguished by its handles as one of the first thirty-six made.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME9Y_june-1975_Virginia-City-NY.html
To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the United States Army on 14 June 1975 and the 150th anniversary of Fort Hamilton on 11 June 1975, this plaque is dedicated. We ask our successors to hold an appropriate observance in June 2025 to commemorat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME9X_fort-hamilton-officers-club_Virginia-City-NY.html
This casemate fort, named in honor of Alexander Hamilton, was constructed during the years 1825 - 1831 as part of the New York Harbor coastal defense network. It is situated on the site of the two earlier earthworks. One was a 1778 British fortifi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME9V_fort-hamilton_Waynesville-NY.html
The War of 1812 inspired a new generation of American seacoast forts, New York's first example was Fort Hamilton, constructed between 1825 and 1831. Earlier masonry forts in the harbor had been of sandstone, but Fort Hamilton was built of granite …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME9U_the-caponier_Waynesville-NY.html
Fort Hamilton, with its heavy guns, defended New York City against ships. This structure defended Fort Hamilton against land attack. The caponier was a flank battery designed to sweep the back of the main fort with cannon fire and to protect the g…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME9Q_narrows-overlook-fort-hamilton_Wellsburg-NY.html
In the summer of 1776, American lookouts watched a British fleet massing in the Narrows from this point. Over two hundred ships and thirty thousand men, under the command of General William Howe and his brother, Admiral Lord Richard Howe were set …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME9O_the-battle-of-brooklyn_Shiloh-NY.html
On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence proclaimed to the world that thirteen British colonies had joined together to create a new nation: the United States of America. Here in Brooklyn, only two months later, the survival of that new nat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME9N_the-battle-of-long-island_Shiloh-NY.html
In the summer of 1776 this site saw both the first coast defense of the newborn United States & the opening of the largest battle of the Revolutionary War. On that original Fourth of July, a small American gun position near here entered into an un…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME9K_on-july-4-1776_Salem-NY.html
American Artillerymen under the command of Maj. Gen. Henry Knox fired from this area on the British Invasion Fleet in New York Harbor. These were the first shots of the Battle of Long Island. Damage & casualties were inflicted upon the H.M.S. Asia.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCOB_john-paul-jones_Spring-Green-NY.html
In honor ofJohn Paul JonesFather of the U.S. Navy———————-This flagpole has been refabricatedfrom the mast of the U.S.S. Daniel No. 335,by Lt. Alton Douglass and the crew ofU.S.S. Seattle A.O.E. 3, and inst…