Fort Lee

Fort Lee is a New Jersey historical marker in Bergen County, dedicated 1932.

On right hand side of road approaching bridge; 100 feet from · location approximate

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Washington came to the fort on this site adter the surrender of Fort Washington. The British advanced against Fort Lee on November 20, 1776, and Washington, finding the fort untenable, moved the American troops to the west side of the Hackensack River.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1770 · [A chart of New York Island & North River, East River, passage through Hell Gate… (Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library)
1770 · [A chart of New York Island & North River (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1778 · Map of New York I. : with the adjacent rocks and other remarkable parts of Hell-Gate / by… (Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library)
1782 · Composite: Steven's facsimile of British head quarters manuscript map of New York (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1811 · Map Of The Country Thirty Miles Round the City of New York. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Composite: Steven's facsimile of British head quarters manuscript map of New York, 1782, covering the location of Fort Lee, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Composite: Steven's facsimile of British head quarters manuscript map of New York, 1782, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours and the location is approximate.

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Fort Lee

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