In the year 1775…..The “Revolution” had barely
begun….when the “New” America’s Greatest General…and most assuredly it’s Greatest Villain…Benedict Arnold… led an invasion force of 1,000 Continental troops and “Long Rifles” through the wild, mostly Un-Charted forests and
mountains of Massachusetts & Maine in an attack on the British held city of Quebec on the St. Lawrence River in Canada. This daring Tour de Force of orelentless determination, skill and finally, unwavering raw courage is examined in detail by Forrest “Woody”Burgener, a member of the “Company of Military Historians” (West Point Chapter)and frequent lecturer on Arnold and the Revolutionary War, tells the incredible tale…of the Jaw-Dropping Assault through unknown land, hurricanes, blizzards, starvation, near-mutiny and individual heroics and survival skills….and the beginning of the Legend that was Benedict Arnold on Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. at the Washington Twp. Public Library, 37 E. Springtown Rd., Long Valley, NJ.
Mr. Burgener is a graduate of New York University, the
Adjutant of the American Veterans Association, Post 1776, Washington Township, N.J. , and is also a member of the
Washington Township Historical Society, and the Tappan, Piermont, and Orangetown Historical Museum & Archives in New York State.He also restored the Shippen Manor, Oxford, N.J. to it’s Circa 1752 condition under Federal
& N.J. State Historical Preservation Grants.
Call the Library at 908-876-3596 or go to www.wtpl.org to register for this program!
