Day: August 27, 2015

History

Red Hook History: Where exactly was Fort Defiance anyway? by Connor Eugene Gaudet

The story of the Revolutionary War redoubt, Fort Defiance has been told in the pages of this newspaper before, so while it isn’t necessarily worth retelling the story of the role it played in the early days of the Revolution, it might be worth visiting its more recent past – that is, the curious tale of it’s debated location. Van […]