The Huntington's Regiment marker stands on Battle Hill in Green-Wood Cemetery, part of the terrain fought over during the Battle of Brooklyn on August 27, 1776. Colonel Jedediah Huntington's 17th Continental Regiment was raised in Connecticut and joined other American units defending the wooded heights. The site commemorates a fierce local stand within a much larger battle that ended in a serious defeat for Washington's army.

As British and Hessian columns advanced across Long Island, the Americans faced attacks at several passes. A force associated with Huntington's regiment, joined by Pennsylvanians and Delaware troops, seized or defended the high ground later called Battle Hill. The marker credits roughly three hundred Americans with holding against repeated attacks by a much larger enemy. Contemporary praise recorded their determination, though exact strengths and casualty totals differ among later accounts.

The tactical situation deteriorated when the main British flanking column passed through the unguarded Jamaica Pass and struck the American rear. Units on the heights risked encirclement and had to fight their way toward the Brooklyn lines. Some men escaped, while many were captured after learning that supporting troops had withdrawn. Prisoners then entered a brutal confinement system in occupied New York, where disease, hunger, overcrowding, and neglect killed many more than battlefield fire.

Huntington himself went on to long Continental service and eventually became a major general, but the marker centers the rank-and-file soldiers at the hill. Their action inflicted losses and delayed British progress without reversing the outcome. That distinction matters: courage at a particular position can be historically significant even when the army loses the field. The Americans' ultimate success in the Revolution did not erase the confusion and sacrifice of its early defeats.

Green-Wood Cemetery was established decades after the battle, reshaping the ground with roads, plantings, graves, and monuments. Battle Hill nonetheless preserves elevation and views that help explain why the position was valuable. Commemoration within a cemetery also links soldiers killed or captured in 1776 with later generations who chose to memorialize them. The landscape is both an active burial ground and one of the city's most legible fragments of battlefield terrain.

The marker gives a specific regiment and episode a place within the complicated Battle of Brooklyn. It draws attention to Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Delaware soldiers whose resistance was overshadowed by the British flanking victory and Washington's later evacuation. It also extends the battle's human story into captivity, where many captured Americans died. Battle Hill therefore represents resolve, tactical vulnerability, and the long consequences of defeat, all embedded in a modern urban landscape that largely conceals the original field.