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
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
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