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Affair at Little Egg Harbor

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Lt. Gustav Juliet, a deserter, found Ferguson and told him of Pulaski's encampment; he mentioned that morale was fairly low, and security almost nonexistent. Ferguson promptly loaded 250 of his best men onto boats and rowed them, in the dark, some ten miles to what is now
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The farm land which was the site of the massacre has been developed as the Country Club Estates; a small parcel of the colonial farm was preserved on a plot of land between Hollybrook Drive and Cedarbrook
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Pulaski eventually led up his mounted troops, causing Ferguson to retreat to his boats, and leaving a few men who had fallen into the Patriot colonists' hands.
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and try to stop their use of the town as a base for the distribution of their prizes and shipment of captured goods to General Washington at Valley Forge.
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The Pulaski Monument is located on Pulaski Blvd in the Mystic Island section of Little Egg Harbor.
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Battles in the Northern Coastal theater of the American Revolutionary War after Saratoga
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led a raid on Chestnut Neck, on the Mullica River, to retrieve supplies taken by
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who used the area as a base to harass and seize British ships and their cargoes.
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Battles of the American Revolutionary War involving the United States
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them as they slept. The massacre took place about one week after the
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and his newly raised forces were ordered to oppose his actions.
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Crossroads of the American Revolution National Heritage Area
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Battles of the American Revolutionary War in New Jersey
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The affair at Egg Harbor, New Jersey, October 15, 1778
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American Revolutionary War § Stalemate in the North
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American Revolutionary War
Tuckerton, New Jersey
39°32′56″N 74°22′30″W / 39.549°N 74.375°W / 39.549; -74.375
United States
Great Britain
Kazimierz Pułaski
Patrick Ferguson
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Northern coastal theater
Ridgefield
Sag Harbor
2nd Machias
Setauket
Mount Hope Bay
Newport
Grey's raid
Chestnut Neck
Little Egg Harbor
Tryon's raid
Norwalk
Fairfield
Penobscot Expedition
Cape Split
Fort St. George
Annapolis Royal
Cape Ann
Groton Heights
Fort Slongo

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