Posted on 08/29/2023 6:42:39 AM PDT by DFG
Today is the 247th anniversary of the mysterious, Providential fog that covered the evacuation of the Continental Army from Long Island to Manhattan in 1776. The term Providence was very common in this era. The president of Princeton College, John Witherspoon, defined Providence as the operation of God’s presence. After the evacuation on August 29, 1776, one soldier sent a report to a Boston newspaper that said: “Providence favored us. The night was remarkably still. The water as smooth as glass, so that our boats got all over. At sunrise a great fog came up. The enemy did not discover that we had evacuated our lines until we were all over.”
Also referring to the fog as providential was Benjamin Tallmadge, who was on one of the last boats to depart the Brooklyn Ferry from Long Island to Manhattan that night. Tallmadge is one of the main characters in my book The Submarine and the Spies. If the British had been able to get their ships in the East River that night, they would have cut off the Army and sealed the Continental Army in on both sides.
Here is Benjamin Tallmadge's recollection of what happened from his memoir. Tallmadge later became George Washington’s spymaster.
“The Declaration of Independence, which had been solemnly adopted by Congress on the Fourth of July, 1776, was announced to the army in general orders, and filled every one with enthusiastic zeal, as the point was now forever settled, and there was no further hope of reconciliation and dependence on the mother country.
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Today Providence would say you people suck. You’re on your own.
it was the maryland 400 that saved washington... not only the fog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoEq7DkIGJo
Easily explained: Hand of God. :)
There were many miracles with our Revolution and even the war of 1812.
Was this the fog that Joe Biden literally blew in using his newly invented fog machine?
Any time you can quietly get off of Long Island is a miracle.
No such thing. Thier is only the guiding hand of THE HOLY SPIRIT.
I’ve always loved that story from history.
Who knew the Redcoats were solar powered?
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