The Battle of the Hook Movie

video taken Sunday, October 19, 2008 at Gloucester, Virginia, reenactment of the battle of the Hook.

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Education

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• RevWar
• Education
• Revolutionary
• War
• 18th
• Century
• battle
• tactics
• The
• Hook
• Gloucester
• VA
• Living
• History

[crreativeme]

What is the tune the fifers are playing at 0:33?

[JimSkunkHollow]

Reveille-"The Three Camps" also called "First of September". There are several Reveille tunes.

[loboanamiguelito]

At Union Hill he filed into the woods where by the guide's timidity, or treachery, the march was prolonged to three hours before gaining the right road. The same night, Colonel Van Boskirk left Paulus Hook with a force of one hundred and thirty men to make a raid upon the English neighborhood. Fortunately the two parties did not meet.

[loboanamiguelito]

At four o'clock on the afternoon of August 8, 1779, Major Henry Lee, with four hundred infantry and a troop of dismounted dragoons started from New Bridge (now River Edge, New Jersey), on a march of fourteen miles through the woods to make an attack upon the fort at Paulus Hook. He detached patrols of horse to watch the communication with the North River and stationed parties of infantry at different roads leading to Paulus Hook.

[2ndpadrummer]

did you have like a hat cam or somthing?

[2ndpadrummer]

couldnt show up to this it loked like a blast!

[aquazuki9]

in was there

[bkcodieb]

i was there

[codbigredone2]

The sunday battle was not the hook, it was the Battle of Green Springs. Only the saturday battle was the battle of the hook.

[Flintlock76]

What's with the Continental uniforms?

The Battle of the Hook was between British,UNUNIFORMED American MILITIA and French Dragoons!