103.Springfield_CL - WDS American Revolutionary War
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| Turns: | 42 |
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| First Side: | British |
| Second Side: | Continental Army |
Date: 23 June 1780 - Scale/Size: Company Level, Large - Location: West of Elizabethtown, New Jersey opposite Staten Island, New York.
Scenario Briefing: Historical - Lieutenant General Wilhelm von Knyphausen left the British camp at Elizabethtown early on 23 June, with the goal of striking back through Connecticut Farms and Springfield to reach the Hobart Gap. Rather than a straight repeat of his first attempt, he dispatched Major General Edward Mathew along the northern Vauxhall Road to hopefully get around the American defenders. Major Henry Lee and his Legion would oppose him. Along the main Galloping Hill Road, the New Jersey defenders, both Continental and local militias, would skirmish and slow the British advance.
The American's were limited on ammunition and wadding for their cannon, allegedly going so far as to use pages town from hymnals published by Isaac Watts. The British made reasonable progress, but growing numbers of militias gathering in the Short Hills between the Wachtung and Newark Mountains, convinced von Knyphausen to withdraw, giving the Americans their last victory in the north.
Recommended Rules: [Default]
Intended to be played as the Crown forces against the AI or Head-to-Head.
Further Reading: The Forgotten Victory by Thomas Fleming.
Scenario Briefing: Historical - Lieutenant General Wilhelm von Knyphausen left the British camp at Elizabethtown early on 23 June, with the goal of striking back through Connecticut Farms and Springfield to reach the Hobart Gap. Rather than a straight repeat of his first attempt, he dispatched Major General Edward Mathew along the northern Vauxhall Road to hopefully get around the American defenders. Major Henry Lee and his Legion would oppose him. Along the main Galloping Hill Road, the New Jersey defenders, both Continental and local militias, would skirmish and slow the British advance.
The American's were limited on ammunition and wadding for their cannon, allegedly going so far as to use pages town from hymnals published by Isaac Watts. The British made reasonable progress, but growing numbers of militias gathering in the Short Hills between the Wachtung and Newark Mountains, convinced von Knyphausen to withdraw, giving the Americans their last victory in the north.
Recommended Rules: [Default]
Intended to be played as the Crown forces against the AI or Head-to-Head.
Further Reading: The Forgotten Victory by Thomas Fleming.
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