Red Hook Lane Arresick

Continental Army riflemen fleeing the destruction of Fort Defiance fired shots at British troops advancing on the Carnarsie Indian path through Gowanus, killing a Lt.

[2] Cypress Tree Island was a tidewater marsh which the arriving Dutch in 1630 called Roode Hoek, from the red clay nearby.

[7] Prior to the battle a thousand men worked under General Israel Putnam's direction to prepare for the invasion of New York, building the fort during one night in April.

Colonel James Grant was in the vanguard of troops attempting a flanking maneuver on the right side of the American line, following the retreat at Battle Hill.

[14][15] The Americans were buoyed by the name, which was sewn in the headgear,[16] mistakenly thinking that much reviled Major-General Grant, the leader of the left-wing of the Gravesend assault had been killed.

[19] John Burkard, a historian who grew up in Red Hook and spent most of his retirement researching the colonial history of Roode Hoek, found maps dating to 1766 showing an earlier fort on the island from the 1600s and was convinced that the oddly shaped building at Columbia and Nelson streets is the location of the burial ground.