Breastworks - Waterford, NY
Posted by: ripraff
N 42° 47.135 W 073° 40.775
18T E 607998 N 4737850
The Breastworks on Peebles Island were built to "check Burgoyne's invasion".
Waymark Code: WM113YD
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 08/12/2019
Views: 4
text: "New York Breastworks erected under direction of Thaddeus Koscuiszko in August-September 1777 to check Burgoyne's invasion State Education Department 1949"
Thaddeus Koscuiszko (
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"Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kosciuszko...was a Polish-Lithuanian military engineer, statesman, and military leader who became a national hero in Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, and the United States...On learning of the American Revolution, Kosciuszko, himself a man of revolutionary aspirations, sympathetic to the American cause and an advocate of human rights, sailed for America in June 1776 "