454 Life Between Two Armies: Westchester County and the American Revolution

Podcast: Ben Franklin's World · Liz Covart

Opublikowano: 2026-10-27

On October 28, 1776, the two armies of the American Revolutionary War met in White Plains, a small town about 30 miles north of New York City. Westchester County remained a wedge between the British Army to the south and the Continental Army to the north. For the remaining seven years of the war, both British and American patrols monitored the roads of the county, tracking enemy movement and occasionally skirmishing. Locals leaned one way or the other, sometimes changed sides, and often found themselves at odds with their neighbors. Char Weigel, a historian with Revolutionary Westchester 250, investigates...