Historedia
Person

General Mercer

Events
1
Episodes
5
Years
1776

Every event in Historedia whose sources name General Mercer, with the role they cite and all of that event’s episodes. This is not a biography, and mentions are grouped by name, so two people with the same name can share this page.

Events and episodes

  1. Battle of Fort Lee

    1776

    Role: Continental Army general ordered to erect the fort

    1. July–September 1776 · Fort Constitution, later Fort Lee, on the Hudson PalisadesConstruction and Renaming of Fort Constitution

      Washington ordered a fort on the Hudson's west side; construction began in July 1776, and it was renamed Fort Lee in September.

    2. November 16, 1776 · Fort Lee bluff above Burdett's Landing, overlooking Fort WashingtonFall of Fort Washington

      The defeat and capture of Continental troops at Fort Washington on November 16, 1776 left Fort Lee defenseless.

    3. November 19–20, 1776 · Hudson River crossing to Lower Closter Landing (Huyler's Landing)British and Hessian Crossing of the Hudson

      On the night of November 19, 1776, 5,000 British troops were ferried across the Hudson on barges, beginning the invasion of New Jersey.

    4. November 20, 1776 · Fort Lee, on the crest of the Hudson PalisadesCapture and Evacuation of Fort Lee

      Washington and Greene ordered Fort Lee's evacuation on the morning of November 20, 1776, as British and Hessian forces invaded New Jersey.

    5. after November 20, 1776 · Road from Fort Lee, now Main Street, through New JerseyRetreat Across the Jerseys

      The Continental Army's general retreat began along a road now Main Street; during it Thomas Paine published "The American Crisis".

Sources

  1. Fort Lee Historic Park Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-22