Battle of Pine's Bridge
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The Battle of Pine's Bridge was a minor yet exceptionally violent engagement during the American Revolutionary War, near the town of Yorktown, New York, on May 14, 1781. It was one of the largest raid
Pines Bridge Monument in Yorktown Heights
Christopher Greene
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Christopher Greene was an American legislator and soldier. He led the spirited defense of Fort Mercer in the 1777 Battle of Red Bank, and for leading the racially integrated 1st Rhode Island Regiment
Battle of Pine's Bridge
…along with detached soldiers of the Massachusetts Continental Line and the New Hampshire Continental Line on the north bank of the Croton River. Colonel Christopher Greene, the regiment's commander, and Major Ebenezer Flagg, Greene's second-in-command, were killed in the action, along with at least six African American…
Christopher Greene by James Sullivan Lincoln
Reproductive engraving of Greene's portrait published in 1865
Burial Place Marker in Yorktown Heights
The 1829 monument to Greene at the Red Bank Battlefield