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"Jäger Post" at the Point House across from Gloucester Town.
"Jäger Post" at the Point House across from Gloucester Town.
1778 - Fortress Philadelphia
As the British occupied Philadelphia starting in the fall of 1777 until June 1778, they began to build redoubts and outpost around the City of Philadelphia.
The Gloucester Point Ferry location on the eastern side of the Delaware would not have been a location for an attack by the American Rebels; but nonetheless, would require an outpost.
The British would assign this task to their allied Hessian Jägerkorps.
This 1778 map of Philadelphia shows "Jäger Post" at the Point House across from Gloucester Town.
Notice too the notation "the Rebel Fleet Burnt" and the symbols which indicate the mast of sunken ships.
Link the Library of Congress map:
"Philadelphia and neighborhood"
https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3824p.ar132600/
British Philadelphia Fortifications
British Philadelphia Fortifications
1777-1778
1777-1778
The British begin to build fortification around Philadelphia as they occupy the city staring in Sept 1777 until they depart in June 1778.
Thress versions of this map are from Feb 1778 Hessian Map of the Delaware River & Philadelphia with the positions, camps and fortifications on Mud Island, around the city, on the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers.
[ Arcinsys Hessen / Hessian State Archives ]
Another Hessian map of the position at Philadelphia
Another Hessian map of the position at Philadelphia
"Map of the city of Philadelphia with army camp after leaving Germantown"
[ Arcinsys Hessen / Hessian State Archives ]
Hessian Map of the Battle of Red Bank
Hessian Map of the Battle of Red Bank
Fort Mercer
Fort Mercer
Oct. 22, 1777
Oct. 22, 1777
"Plan for the assault on Fort Redbank on October 22, 1777,
under Colonel de Donop"
[ Arcinsys Hessen / Hessian State Archives ]
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