Red Bank Battlefield Park
100 Hessian Ave, National Park, NJ 08063, USA
New Jersey, USA
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VILLAGE
EST. 1736
FORTIFICATION
EST. 1736
BATTLEFIELD
October 22, 1777
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION at Red Bank Battlefield Park.
A county park preserves Fort Mercer’s Delaware River battlefield landscape around the surviving Whitall House. Earthwork traces, monuments, graves, artillery, museum rooms, archaeological resources, walking paths, and river views interpret the 1777 defense within a compact landscaped property surrounded by later development.
About Red Bank Battlefield Park
The central feature of the park is the James and Ann Whitall House, located at the end of Hessian Avenue. It was built in 1748 by James Whitall Sr. and features Georgian architecture. This brick and stone house just outside the works of Fort Mercer, served as a hospital for some of the men wounded in the fighting. The house suffered damage during the battle. Ann Cooper Whitall had remained in the house during the fighting and tended to the wounded, earning her the epithet "Heroine of Red Bank."
HISTORY HAPPENED HERE at Red Bank Battlefield Park
The Battle of Red Bank, also known as the Battle of Fort Mercer, was a battle fought on October 22, 1777, during the American Revolutionary War. A British and Hessian force was sent to take Fort Mercer on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River just south of Philadelphia, but was decisively defeated by a smaller force of Continental Army troops.
Although Fort Mercer ultimately fell to the British a month later, the victory at the Battle of Red Bank served as a much-needed morale boost to the revolutionary cause, delaying British plans to consolidate gains in Philadelphia, and relieving pressure on Washington's Continental Army, which was embedded north of Philadelphia.
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