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According to Papas (That Ever Loyal Staten Island), British-born General Charles Lee singlehandedly ... in-command during the Revolutionary War. Papas writes about Lee's life with enthusiasm ...
The Special Operations to Capture Generals Charles Lee and Richard Prescott, in which he chronicles the capture of two high-ranking military officers during the Revolutionary War. Christian ...
British Fleet anchored in the narrows 1776. (Courtesy Library of Congress) By Phillip Papas Special to the Advance In the winter of 1776, rumors circulated that the British would target New York ...
Charles Lee, a general in the Continental Army. The English-born Lee fought in the Seven Years War, worked as aide de camp for the King of Poland, and was even married to a Mohawk woman.
Charles Lee has long been cast as one of the bit players in the drama of American independence. The Revolutionary Army general is remembered, if at all, for being dressed down by George Washington ...
The British strategy of dividing the northern colonies failed, culminating in the loss at Saratoga that brought the French into the war ... Fort Lee, including a force led by General Charles ...
One of the most daring special operations in the Revolutionary War took place ... The Special Operations to Capture Generals Charles Lee and Richard Prescott.” McBurney will be speaking about ...
FORT LEE – The borough's decades-old "Retreat to Victory," an annual Revolutionary War ... Fort Lee now bears the surname of Charles Lee, a popular army general. "[The retreat] gives us a ...