Participants will walk the ground where this retreat occurred and re-live the story of that dramatic night. As the organizers describe: "On a moonlit August night in 1776, a regiment of fishermen from Gloucester, MA, rowed General George Washington and the Continental Army across the East River under the noses of the vastly superior British army encamped a few hundred yards away. 12,000 men with horses and artillery escaped in silence over the river and saved the patriot cause in a turning point in American history."
