Admiral Cornwallis and the Bronx River

Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 19:13:48 -0400 Reply-To: George Myers Sender: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY From: George Myers Subject: Re: Giant "corpse flower" raises a stink in Sydney "It was mis-perceived in the American Revolution, a British generals orders stating that he he sail up it to White Plains and defeat the rebels, although today one could ride a bicycle to White Plains along the "Greenway". I am hoping they put up a bike rack at both parks someday." (at least one at the Bronx Zoo) The recorded letter was to Admiral Cornwallis, I am sorry to have called the famous Admiral a "general" (maybe "Second trombone" would be better). For "arsenic and old lace" one might look at this interesting scientific analysis of King George and Admiral Cornwallis' wig. http://www.scientifics.com/Newsletter/release11_06_04b.htm By the way, if the French, 6000 strong hadn't marched across New England to Westchester, NY, near White Plains, and convinced Washington NOT to take the troops back into NYC but take a long march to Virginia to defeat General Cornwallis, with help from the French fleet, we might all be speaking English (or Welsh, Cornish, Gaelic, etc.) The troops crossed the Hudson River from the Kings Highway ferry crossing near the Kennedy House, where Alexander Hamilton was saved from a death of sickness, near Verplank, NY. In the same house a courts martial of General Lee from an early battle in New Jersey, was partially conducted, and he was later suspended for a year. According to the historian Barbara Tuchman (in, "The First Salute") General Washington viewed the crossing from a tall wooden tower constructed nearby. The remains of the Kennedy House, after it burned ca. 1979, were buried in an athletic field expansion of the nearby public school.