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Met at Port Amboy to declare Stamp Act "unconstitutional"
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Eighty-five Deligates gathered in Trenton for the first meeting of thePovidential Congress
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This map was created in 1767 to show the border od New Jersey. It was the principle map during the revolution war. It was used by both Britain and America to mad out strategic routes.
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River that transported food during Revolutionary war. River the Britished wanted to control so they can have access to New Jerseys Food, "Garden of America". However, the Americans never loss control of the Hackensack Valley during the war.
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After a long march through the snow, Washington led his troops across the partially frozen Delaware river on Christmas Day of 1776 to defeat the Hessian mercenaries and restore the fortunes of the American patriot
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New Almost cleared of British
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28 Jun 1778 General Howe was replaced by Sir Henry Clinton, who believed that capturing Philadelphia had gained the British nothing. Clinton ordered a retreat to New York City, where the Royal Navy could send supplies by sea. On June 28, the Americans caught up with the retreating British near Monmouth, New Jersey. In the following battle, Washington rallied his men to stand and fight. That night, the British escaped across the Hudson to New York City. No one realized that the war in the North
