Author: George F. Reasor

George F. Reasor is a 1983 West Point graduate who served twenty-two years as an active duty and army reserve field artillery officer, retiring as a lieutenant colonel. He also earned a Master’s degree from Radford University and retired after twenty-eight years in various positions in public education in Virginia. His primary Revolutionary War research interests are operations around West Point, the Southern theater, the world war aspects of the conflict, and the German auxiliary troops. He resides in Columbia, SC.

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Bernard Romans and the First Attempt at Fortifying the Hudson River

Lord Stirling was not happy. The American brigadier general[1] was on a mission from George Washington to inspect the newly built fortifications in the Hudson Highlands of New York. As he sarcastically wrote Washington in early June 1776 the Westermost Battery is a streight line constructed by Mr Romans at a very great Expence, . . […]

by George F. Reasor