Peter Gansevoort
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Peter Gansevoort was a Colonel in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He is best known for leading the resistance to Barry St. Leger's Siege of Fort Stanwix in 1777. Gansevoort
Portrait of Gansevoort by Gilbert Stuart, 1794
Statue of Peter Gansevoort, Rome, NY
Catherine Van Schaick Gansevoort, portrait by Ezra Ames
Peter Gansevoort
Siege of Fort Stanwix
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The siege of Fort Stanwix began on August 2, 1777, and ended on August 22, 1777. Fort Stanwix, at the western end of the Mohawk River Valley, was a primary defense point for the Continental Army again
Peter Gansevoort
…2, 1812) was a Colonel in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He is best known for leading the resistance to Barry St. Leger's Siege of Fort Stanwix in 1777. Gansevoort was also the maternal grandfather of Moby-Dick author Herman Melville. Peter Gansevoort was born into the Dutch aristocracy of…
Aerial view of the reconstructed Fort Stanwix
18th-century engraving of Barry St. Leger
A road blocked by a "giant abatis" such as delayed St. Leger's artillery