| Show H HH Monmouth I ib M I j b Record of Victory That d 5 3 I Inspired Patriots of the Revolution y g T T 1 4 Monmouth county in New Jersey celebrated in 1928 1925 the anniversary anniversary er anni sary sury of the Battle of Monmouth This severe ere and critical engagement of or the Revolution was re-enacted re in a pageant pageant pageant which showed how the fight was waged from Monmouth Courthouse to Old Tennent and also the heroic part played that day dar by Molly Pitcher writes May W. W Mount in the NewYork New NewYork NewYork York Times The victory of Monmouth strengthened strengthened strength strength- strengthened ened the morale of the army worn by their winter at Valley Forge and encouraged the Colonies In their struggle It made their commander in chief chic more heroic than ever as they thoy pictured him constantly exposed to fire rallying his troops In dead wounded and missing the British lost and the Americans Included among these were four British and eight American officers nine fifty-nine British and many Americans I died of ot fatigue and sunstroke The banks of ot Molly Pitchers Pitcher's brook were strewn with dead and wounded soldiers soldiers soldiers sol sol- diers who had dragged themselves to the water The British dead and not a few tew of ot the Americans were buried burled on the field At some period after the War of ot the thc Revolution Devolution the village of ot Monmouth Monmouth Monmouth Mon Mon- mouth Courthouse changed Its name Scotch settlement settlement settlement set set- to Freehold But nut the old whose hose first church was the Scots Scots' 1 meeting house at now In the borders of ot Freehold centered about the courthouse and aU ali roads led to its tree shaded |
