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Site of Fort Tryon

d. 1904

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On this hill-top stood Fort Tryon, the northern out-work of Fort Washington. Its gallant defense against the Hessian troops by the Maryland & Virginia regiment 16 November 1778 was shared by Margaret Corbin, the first American woman to take a soldier’s …

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