Fort Lee Historic Park

Fort Lee Historic Park
Location	Fort Lee, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°51′01″N 73°57′47″W / 40.8503°N 73.963°W / 40.8503; -73.963Coordinates: 40°51′01″N 73°57′47″W / 40.8503°N 73.963°W / 40.8503; -73.963
Area	33 acres

Battle of Fort Lee
Part of the American Revolutionary War
Watercolor by Captain Thomas Davies depicting the British landing at the base of the Palisades.
Date November 20, 1776 (1776-11-20) Location Fort Lee, New Jersey vicinity Result British victory
Belligerents
United States	Great Britain Hesse-Kassel
Commanders and leaders
George Washington Nathanael Greene	Charles Cornwallis Carl von Donop
Strength
2,000	5,000 8 guns

Fort Lee Historic Park is located atop a bluff of the Hudson Palisades overlooking Burdett's Landing, known as Mount Constitution, in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Native Americans appear to have lived in the area for thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans. Site of George Washington's 1776 encampment opposite Fort Washington at the northern end of Manhattan. Fort Lee is named for General Charles Lee. The site is a reconstruction of the encampment including the blockhouse, battery, quarters as well as a visitors center. It is adjacent to Palisades Interstate Park.

Fort Lee, originally Fort Constitution, was an American Revolutionary War fort located on the crest of the Hudson Palisades in what was then Hackensack Township, New Jersey opposite Fort Washington at the northern end of Manhattan Island.

General George Washington issued orders to General Mercer to summon all available troops and erect a fort on the west side of the Hudson River. Construction commenced in July 1776 on the new fort, to be called Fort Constitution. It was located on the western side of the road that led up the hill from the landing. Concurrently, Fort Washington was being built almost directly across the North River (Hudson River) in New York.Chevaux-de-frise, south of the Hudson River Chain, were laid between them.

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