This Day in Goodlove History, November 21

This Day in Goodlove History, November 21

• By Jeffery Lee Goodlove

• jefferygoodlove@aol.com

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• Surnames associated with the name Goodlove have been spelled the following different ways; Cutliff, Cutloaf, Cutlofe, Cutloff, Cutlove, Cutlow, Godlib, Godlof, Godlop, Godlove, Goodfriend, Goodlove, Gotleb, Gotlib, Gotlibowicz, Gotlibs, Gotlieb, Gotlob, Gotlobe, Gotloeb, Gotthilf, Gottlieb, Gottliebova, Gottlob, Gottlober, Gottlow, Gutfrajnd, Gutleben, Gutlove

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• The Chronology of the Goodlove, Godlove, Gottlob, Gottlober, Gottlieb (Germany) etc., and Allied Families of Battaile, (France), Crawford (Scotland), Harrison (England), Jackson (Ireland), LeClere (France), Lefevre (France), McKinnon (Scotland), Plantagenets (England), Smith (England), Stephenson (England?), Vance (Ireland from Normandy), and Winch (England, traditionally Wales), including correspondence with -George Rogers Clarke, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson.

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• The Goodlove/Godlove/Gottlieb families and their connection to the Cohenim/Surname project:

• New Address! http://www.familytreedna.com/public/goodlove/default.aspx

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• This project is now a daily blog at:

• http://thisdayingoodlovehistory.blogspot.com/

• Goodlove Family History Project Website:

• http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/g/o/o/Jeffery-Goodlove/

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• Books written about our unique DNA include:

• “Abraham’s Children, Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People” by Jon Entine.

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• “ DNA & Tradition, The Genetic Link to the Ancient Hebrews” by Rabbi Yaakov Kleiman, 2004.

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• My thanks to Mr. Levin for his outstanding research and website that I use to help us understand the history of our ancestry. Go to http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/ for more information. “For more information about the Weekly Torah Portion or the History of Jewish Civilization go to the Temple Judah Website http://www.templejudah.org/ and open the Adult Education Tab "This Day...In Jewish History " is part of the study program for the Jewish History Study Group in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

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• A point of clarification. If anybody wants to get to the Torah site, they do not have to go thru Temple Judah. They can use http://DownhomeDavarTorah.blogspot.com

• and that will take them right to it.



The William Harrison Goodlove Civil War Diary annotated by Jeff Goodlove is available at the Farmer's Daughter's Market , (319) 294-7069, 495 Miller Rd, Hiawatha, IA , http://www.fdmarket.com/



Birthdays on this date; Silas J. Winch, Louis S. Plum, Richard W. Kruse, Mary Hitchell, Thornton M. Goodlove, Martha E. Godlove, James C. Adams

Weddings on this date; Ethel L. Squires and Clifton J. Willard, Mary A. Crawford and William Drennan, Ethel Aiken and Gilbert Boyer.



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Jeff



In a message dated 11/9/2010 9:03:06 A.M. Central Standard Time,

Dear Jeff: I am so sorry I forgot to call on you, last night, for your
historical report; I remembered as I was driving home. I will try to do
better next month. Regards, M







M, No problem. With the subject matter at hand it didn't really seem appropriate. I write my "This Day" blog everyday and I am always coming across Masonic stories of one sort or another. While in Nashville for the Scottish Rite Reunion I saw a very small pin that looked like a flower and asked the person at the office at the Grand Lodge of Tennessee what it was for. As it turns out the pin represents the story of "Das Vergissmeinnicht" or "The Forget-Me-Not". Yesterday while at the Medinah Shriners Fall Ceremonial after I had received my "Fez" I was in the shop looking around at pins and a man walked up and said "do you know what this pin is for?" It was the "Forget me Not". He said he told the story to his lodge as he was their historian. What a coincidence! He is the Coordinator of Child Transportation for the Shriner Hospital in Chicago. It is a volunteer group who transport children to and from the hospital from all over the Midwest.

Maybe I can do some sort of "This day in Masonic History" on our website or via email?



Sorry I could not play tennis today for a Church obligation has come up. Hopefully next week?.



Jeff





This Day…

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• November 21, 1272: Edward returns home to England when he hears that his father Henry III has died.[1]



• Ancestors of Joan of Acre- Cnts. Gloucester

• 1272

• Princess Joan of Acre[1]- Cts. Gloucester, born 1272 in Acre, Palestine; died April 23, 1307 in Austin Friar's, Clare, Suffolk, England. She was the daughter of 2. King of England Edward I (Longshanks) and 3. Eleanor of Castille, "Cts de Ponthieu". She married (1) Earl/Gloucester3 Gilbert "The Red" 7th Earl de Clare "6th Earl" April 30, 1290 in Westminster Abby, London, England. He was born September 02, 1243 in Christchurch, Hampshire, England/Christchurch, England, and died December 07, 1295 in Monmouth Castle. He was the son of Earl/Gloucester Richard de Clare and Maud de (LACY) LACIE. She married (2) Baron Ralph de MONTHERMER (Earl Gloucester) January 1296/97. He was born in of Tonebrugge, Castle, Kent, England, and died in (35 yrs old).[2]

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• Princess Joan of Acre is the compilers 20th great grandmother.[2]



• In 1272, the papal repudiation of the blood libel was repeated by Pope Gregory X, who also ruled that thereafter any such testimony of a Christian against a Jew could not be accepted unless it is confirmed by another Jew. Unfortunately, these proclamations from the highest sources were not effective in altering the beliefs of the Christian majority and libels continued. [3]



• 1274: Two years later, following their return from the Middle East, Edward and Eleanor were crowned king and queen of England.[1] [4]



• 1275: Gregory X in 1275 published a letter ordering that no Jew should be arrested under such silly pretexts. He further demanded that no Christian should “stir up anything against the Jews.” He noted that blackmail had been involved in many cases, that the parents of these children or some other Christian enemies of these Jews had secretly hidden the children in order to injure the Jews so that they might extort money from them.[5]

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• 1275: King Edward I of England passes the Statute of the Jewry forcing Jews over the age of seven to wear an identifying yellow badge, and making usury illegal, in order to seize their assets. Scores of English Jews are arrested, 300 hanged and their property oges to the Crown. In 1280 he orders Jews to be present as Dominicans preach conversion. In 1287 he arrests heads of Jewish families and demands their communities pay ransom of 12,000 pounds.[6]



• ABT 1275: The most influential Kabbalistic text was Zohar, which was probably written in about 1275 by the Spanish mystic Moses of Leon. [7]

• In 1276 the Jews were expelled from upper Bavaria.[8]

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• 1278: The Edict of Pope Nicholas III requires compulsory attendance of Jews at conversion sermons.[9]



• 1279: Synod of Ofen: Christians are forbidden to sell or rent real estate to or from Jews.[10]



• 1280: Abraham Abulafie, a Spanish mystic, evolved a Jewish form of Yoga, using the usual disciplines of concentration such as breathing, the recitation of a mantra and the adoption of a special posture to achieve an alternative state of consciousness. He seems to have believed that he was the Messiah, not only to Jews but also to Christians. In 1280 he visited the Pope as a Jewish ambassador. [11]

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Elias GUTLEBEN was born on November 21, 1728 in Metzeral,Munster,Colmar,Haut-Rhin,Alsace.[12]



George Washington’s Diary, while on canoe trip with William Crawford (6th great grandfather) and (5th great grandfather) William Harrison:



November 21, 1770. Reachd Fort Pitt in the Afternoon & lodged at Samples.



November 2lst, 1770.—Reached Fort Pitt in the afternoon; distance from our last encampment, about twenty-five miles, and as near as can guess, thirty-five from the Mingo town. ‘The land between the Mingo town and Pittsburgh, is of different kinds. For four or five atiles after leaving the first mentioned place, we passed over steep, hilly ground, covered with white oak, and a thin shallow soil. This was sttceeeded by a lively white oak land, less broken; and this again by rich land, the growth of which was chiefly white and red oak, mixed; which lasted with some interval of different ridges, all the way to Pittsbttrg. It was very observable, that as we left the river, the land grew better, which is a confirmation of the accounts I had before received, that the good bodies of land lie upon time heads of the runs and creeks ; but in all my travels through this country, I have seen no large body of level land.—. On the branches of Raccoon creek, there appear to be good meadow ground; and on Sharter’s creek, over both of which we passed, the land looks well. ‘The country between the Mingo town and Fort Pitt, appears to be well supplied with springs.



November 21, 1772. Left Col. Bassetts on my return home.



From George Washington:[Hackensack] November 21, 1776

The unhappy affair of the 16th. has been succeeded by further Misfortunes.

Yesterday Morning a large body of the Enemy landed between Dobb’s Ferry and Fort Lee. Their object was evidently to inclose the whole of our Troops and stores that lay between the North and Hackensack Rivers, which form a narrow neck of Land. For this purpose they formed and Marched, as soon as they had ascended the Heights towards the Fort. Upon the first information of their movements, our men were ordered to meet them, but finding their numbers greatly superior and that they were extending themselves It was thought proper to withdraw our Men, which was effected and their retreat secured over Hackensack Bridge. We lost the whole of the Cannon that was at the Fort except two twelve pounders, and a great deal of Baggage, between two & three hundred Tents, about a thousand Barrels of Flour and other stores in the Quarter Master’s Department. This loss was inevitable. As many of the stores had been removed, as circumstances & time would admit of. The Ammunition had been happily got away. Our present situation between Hackensack & Passaick Rivers, being exactly similar to our late one, and our force here by no means adequate to an Opposition, that will promise the smallest probability of Success, we are taking measures to retire over the Waters of the latter, when the best dispositions will be formed, that Circumstances will admit of.[13]







November 21, 1777: REGIMENT VON MIRBACH

(MIR plus company number)

October 22 to November 21, 1777

Franz Gotlop’s regiment was at Redbank.[14]





The Regiment V. Mirbach departed on 1 March 1, 1776 from Melsungen. It embarked from Breznerlehe on 12 May 1776 and reached New York on 14 August 1776. The regiment was part of the Hessian First Division and took part in the following major engagements:



-- Long Island (NY, August 27, 1776)

-- Fort Washington (upper Manhattan, NY, November 16 1776)

-- Brandywine (PA, September 11, 1777)

-- Redbank (Gloucester County, NJ, also known as Fort Mercer, October 22-November 21, 1777)









November 21, 1783: REGIMENT VON MIRBACH

(MIR plus company number)

The regiment departed from New York on November 21, 1783 and arrived at Breznerlehe on April, 20, 1784.

They returned to their quarters in Melsungen on May 30, 1784.











Mon. November 21, 1864

Detailed on fatigue to build breast works

For a battery[15]





Dr. William McKinnon Goodlove (1st cousin, 3 times removed) and the 57th Ohio Volunteer Infantry at Clinton, November 21-23, 1864.



The Movie “Saving Private Ryan” was based on this letter…

Washington, November 21, 1864.

To Mrs. Bixby, Boston, Massachusetts.

Dear Madam,

I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts, that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.

I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.

Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,



ourworld.compuserve.com/.../ dear_mrs_bixby.htm

November 21, 1786



John Crawford, “Deer Path” Surveyed

[16]





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Bob,

Here is the information on the artillery you requested. Let me know if you need anything else. Not sure about the “Grenadiers putting on their caps upon reaching the Fort”.



I live near Chicago.



Also, I was thinking that they could do a reconstruction of the face using the skull and see if the face matches the painting of Von Donop. Of course DNA would be the best and most conclusive method of knowing for sure if the skull is Von Donop’s or not.



Are you aware of the microfilm out there somewhere of all the Hessian regimental records? If so, do you know where I could find it?



Jeff





Plan of the Attack on the Fort at Red Bank, 21 October, 1777

The date of the attack, added later in pencil, should read 22 October 1777. At the top center is James Whitall’s house. The legends read as follows: upper right, “Graves of the slain officers”, under long quqdrangle, lower center, “Place where the corps deployed before the attack, and where ist reformed after the attack”; along road below, “Road to Haddonfield”; along right river Frigates and row galleys of the rebels.

Diary [1]



During this time Colonel Donop, along with Colonel Stuart[2] (who accompanied this expedition as a volunteer), Major Pauli,[3] and Captain Krug[4] of the Hessian artillery, had already reconnoitered the fort when I reached the corps. As soon as I arrived, the colonel ordered me to inspect the fort and to give him my opinion.

I approached the fort up to rifle-shot range and found that it was provided with a breastwork twelve feet high, palisaded and dressed with assault stakes. On my way back, I met Colonel Stuart with a drummer who was to summon the fort, and right behind them I met Major Pauli, Captain Krug, and both adjutants of the colonel. All these gentlemen regarded the affair with levity. The only man who had any real knowledge, and looked upon the business as serious, was worthy old Captain Krug. I took this man aside and asked him what he thought of the undertaking, whereupon he answered: “He who has seen forts or fortified places captured with sword in hand will not regard this affair as a small matter, if the garrison puts up a fight and has a resolute commandant. We have let luck slip through our fingers. We should not have summoned the fort, but immediately taken it by surprise, for no one knew of our arrival. But now they will make themselves ready, and if our preparations are not being made better than I hear, we will get a good beating.”[5]



After a lapse of a half an hour, Colonel Stuart returned with the following reply: “Colonel Greene,[6] who commands the fort, sends his compliments and he shall await Colonel Donop.”[7]

After this news, which the colonel did not expect, a hundred fascines[8] were made at once by the battalions, and a battery of six regimental pieces [3-pounders], two 6-pounders, and the howitzers were mounted in the wood at rifle-shot distance from the fort. The Linsing Battalion under Captain Stamford (for Colonel Linsing[9] had stomach pains at this time) was to make the attack against the left, the Regiment von Mirbach against the center, and the Minnigerode Battalion on the bastion to the left at the Delaware. The Lengerke Battalion was stationed at the Delaware to cover the rear against an enemy landing. One hundred men from each battal­ion were to carry the fascines, and march in a line at a distance of two hundred paces in front of the battalion. With these the ditch was to be filled, crossed, and the fort scaled with sword in hand. I placed sixteen showed themselves on the parapet.

This was the order which was given, and no one thought about axes or saws with which the obstructions and palisades could be cut down.[10]

The battery began to play, and the three battalions advanced against the fort with indescribable courage. But they were received so hotly by the garrison, and by the vessels which had moved into position during the summons to rake the fort’s flank, that they were repelled with great loss, although several officers and a number of grenadiers scaled the breastwork. Colonel Donop himself and his adjutant, Captain Wagner, were mortally wounded at the edge of the ditch.[11] Captain Stamford, who commanded the Linsing Battalion, was shot through the chest; Minnigerode through both legs; and the gallant Colonel Schieck, who commanded the Regiment von Mirbach, was shot dead at the barred gate. Night ended the battle, and the attacking corps reassembled at the spot from which it had departed for the attack.

Colonel Wurmb immediately ordered the Jager Corps to move up to the edge of the wood to cover the retreat. He personally took the Grenadier Battalion Lengerke, which had protected the rear in case an enemy party had landed from the ships, and hurried with the battalion to the pass of the Timber Creek bridge to occupy it.

Since we had flattered ourselves in advance with a successful surrender, no retreat then was thought of, and no wagons brought to transport the wounded. The seriously wounded officers were carried on the guns and horses, and all the privates who could not drag themselves away on their wounded limbs fell into enemy hands. But since the enemy took the retreat for a trap, and had expected a new attack during the night, the men had to remain on the battlefield a whole night in the most deplorable condition without the slightest care, whereby the majority died of their wounds.[12]

About midnight the entire corps arrived on the other side of Timber Creek, where arrangements were made at once to obtain wagons for transporting the wounded officers to Philadelphia. At eight o’clock in the morning the corps set out again, and crossed the Delaware during the night. The three grenadier battalions moved into cantonment quarters on the outskirts of Philadelphia; the Mirbach Regiment joined the line of the army; and the Jager Corps returned to its post at the Morris house, where it arrived after midnight.

The loss in dead consisted of:[13]

1. Colonel Schieck

2. Captain Bogatsky .

3. Lieutenant Riemann Regiment von Mirbach (4)

4. Lieutenant Wurmb

5. Lieutenant du Puy .

. 6.Lieutenant Groening Grenadier Battalion Linsing (2)

7. Lieutenant Hille • Grenadier Battalion Minnigerode )



8. Lieutenant Offenbach

And 143 noncommissioned officers and privates.

The wounded consisted of:[14]

1. Colonel Donop, right leg shot apart; captured.

2. Captain and Adjutant Wagner, both legs shot to pieces; captured.

3. Colonel Minnigerode, shot through both legs.

4. Captain Stamford, shot through the chest and right leg.

5. Captain Wachs, through the right leg, von Minnigerode.

6. Captain Hendorff, in the arm, von Minnigerode.

7. Captain Schotten, right arm shot off, von Mirbach.

8. Lieutenant Rodemann, through the left leg, von Linsing.

9. Lieutenant Waitz, through the neck and in the head, von Linsing.

10. Lieutenant Rieffer, left foot smashed, von Mirbach.

11. Lieutenant Berner, right leg shot to pieces, von Mirbach.

12. Lieutenant Gottschall, right knee smashed; captured; von Linsing.

13. Lieutenant Heymel, in the left knee; captured; von Minnigerode.

And 253 noncommissioned officers and privates, of whom not thirty men are convalescing.



Moreover, within eight days Colonel Donop, Captain Wagner, and Lieutenants Berner and Gottschall died of their wounds.[15]

This day was especially sad for me. I lost five of my oldest friends, among whom was a relative, and four of my best friends were severely wounded. As long as I have served, I have not yet left a battlefield in such deep sorrow.[16]

The principal mistakes of the attack were as follows:



1. We should not have summoned the fort, but attacked as soon as we arrived. Through this mistake the garrison was alerted, and the armed vessels gained time to draw near for the defense.

2. The plan of attack itself was faulty. We ought to have made the feint attack where the Linsing Battalion attacked, and the real attack in full strength there where the Minnigerode Battalion attacked, because we were covered on this side by the wood up to musket-shot range.[17]









The fault lay with Howe, who had refused Donop’s request for more artillery, had not supplied the necessary utensils for a siege, not even sending storming ladders or any means of scaling the walls — had taken no means to learn the nature of the position, and had, as usual, shown too little respect for the enemy. [18]







October 21, 1777

The English commander determined to seize Red Bank, and gave the order to Donop, an intelligent and bold soldier, and his force included the three Grenadier battalions of v. Linsingen, v. Minnigerode and v. Lengerke, Mirbach’s regiment, which had been ordered up from Wilmington, four light companies, including Wangenheim’s[19], a dozen cavalrymen, some artillery and two English howitzers.[20]



The 21st of October. About three o’clock in the morning the Jager Corps marched to Cooper’s Ferry118 on the Delaware. The Corps crossed the Delaware in flatboats with the three Hessian grenadier battalions, Linsing, Minnigerode, and Lengerke, along with the Mirbach Regiment under Colonel Schieck, and landed about eight o’clock in the Province of Jersey. I had the advanced guard with sixty jagers, followed by the Corps, the Minnigerode battalion, the Mirbach Regiment, two 6-pounders, two howitzers, the Lengerke and Linsing battalions, and Captain Lorey with twenty mounted jägers. This corps, under Colonel Donop, was ordered to seize by force Fort Red Bank,12° through which the garrison on Mud Island maintained its communication with the mainland. Colonel Donop had volunteered for this expedition.[21]



Early on 21 October Donop’s fated brigade crossed the Delaware on fourteen flatboats. ‘As I crossed the Delaware with Donop,’ wrote O’Reilly, ‘and saw the brigade alone at daybreak, without an Englishman, without guides, without heavy artillery, and without one English general, I shuddered for the consequences.[22] The first wave started at six o’clock, but the artillery carts were not across until two in the afternoon. An hour later, the Jáger having scouted the route to Redbank down the Haddonfield road, Donop set off, Ewald and some sixty Jáger leading. Captain Lorey and another Jáger detachment were left behind to bring on the last ammunition wagons. The brigade leaguered for the night in Haddonfield, the troops lying on their arms in a square. The next morning they resumed their march at four o’clock, and after a delay at Newton’s Creek, where the bridge had been broken, they reached a point within two miles of Redbank at one o’clock in the afternoon. A captured rebel officer informed them that the garrison numbered 800, roughly 200 more than its actual strength.

Both Adam Ludwig Ochs and Quartermaster Ungar of Minnigerode’s battalion he after wrote that Donop, having neared the fort unseen by the garrison, should have stormed it promptly rather than alerting them to his presence by a summons. A letter of Major Sam. Ward to Washington shows that the Americans were, in fact, aware of Donop’s approach, a point which they tried to conceal by leaving their washing hanging out.[23]

Donop had three hours for his reconnaissance. Every indication is that it was inadequate. He did not appreciate that an outlying work to the east of the fort had been abandoned. According to his ADC, Lieutenant Carl von Heister, he did not even observe the enemy rowing galleys in the Delaware, their powerful armament able to enfilade an attacker’s flanks.[24] He did however realize that the works were complete and Howe’s instructions based on outdated information. Why did he not retire, or at least send for heavy artillery? Münchhausen does not hesitate to point out that Donop thought his orders were preemptory. Major Charles Stuart accompanied Donop on his reconnaissance, and both agreed on the impropriety of attacking without heavy guns. Donop said that if Stuart would advise him he would delay the attack, to which Stuart replied that he was too young (i.e. junior) and had not sufficient authority to have delay of the commander-in-chief’s orders rest on him.[25]

Stuart can hardly be blamed for this. Donop, an officer of experience and high reputation, should have been able to take the decision himself. Probably he wanted an Englishman to agree to the delay. Concepts of honour were then very strong, Donop commanded the elite of the Hessians, and was thirsting to achieve something for the honour of his corps. By O’Reilly’s account, he had also talked himself into a position where withdrawal would be personally humiliating. These reasons do not excuse his fatal [26] decision to attack. Nor is Howe blameless for failing to provide artillery because of bad intelligence.

The fort, a simple pentagonal redoubt with a sound earthen rampart, ditch, and abatis, was held by good Rhode Island troops under Colonel Christopher Greene. The too-extensive works had been converted by the French engineer Mauduit du Plessis into an ingenious trap: he abandoned the outlying defences, causing only one part, a salient angle, to be occupied by American sharp shooters, giving the impression that it was still held in its entirety.

The traditional summons to surrender, accompanied by a threat of no mercy to the survivors, possibly a bluff by Donop, was returned unflinchingly by Greene. The interval had been employed in making fascines, to be borne by one hundred men at the head of each battalion. Donop deployed his regiments in line, Minnigerode’s on the right, Mirbach’s in the middle, Linsing’s on the left. Lengerke’s battalion secured the line of retreat; the Jager protected the artillery and the flanks. Immediately upon the messenger returning to the corps with Greene’s reply to the summons, a brisk fire was begun upon the fort from the battalion guns and howitzers. Ewald and sixteen Jager marksmen peppered the top of the parapet making gravel and dust fly up with their good shooting; Donop and his officers placed themselves at the head of their men, and brought them on at a quick step. Minnigerode on the right entered and secured the detached work, Mauduit’s riflemen taking refuge in the main fort.[27] All three battalions were in the ditch when struck by a tremendous fire from the fort and in particular from the row-galleys on their flanks. These made particularly good execution, communicating to the garrison with ‘speaking tubes’. Hessian observers and participants described the galleys’ fire as decisive.[28] Within the fort, officers went about striking with rifle butts and hangers anyone who flinched from his post.[29]

All accounts agree that the attack was pressed with remarkable courage. Some of the grenadiers were actually killed in the embrasures. Others, realizing how hopeless the assault was, took refuge on the parapet below the walls, where they were captured. The loss in officers was heavy. Captain von Stamford, gallant as always, was the first to reach the embrasures before he fell, thrice wounded.[30] Donop himself had his hip shattered, and Lieutenant von Toll of Mirbach’s was shot down with several grenadiers trying to drag him off. Toll was only grazed, but his best friend Carl von Wurmb was killed, never having found his wealthy American heiress.[31] Colonel von Schieck of that regiment was also killed and Minnigerode wounded. After nearly forty minutes’ slaughter, the shattered remnants fled, leaving nearly 400 comrades killed, wounded, or captured.[32]

Donop was found beneath a pile of dead and dying, and taken to a Quaker’s house where he died after three days. Chastellux reported his last words as, ‘I die the victim of my ambition and of the avarice of my sovereign.’ This contrasts oddly with the enthusiasm Donop had previously shown for the America expedition, but is supported by the testimony of von Kalb.[33] Certainly he died unhappy, a sadly tragic figure, his unrealized ambitions the cause of his fate. Colonel von Loos reported him as saying, ‘I have done my duty as a soldier, but as a brigadier I have conducted affairs like a novice (wie em Fáhnrich gehandelt). What will the Landgraf say when he hears that I have lost so many men? For that I am greatly afraid.[34][35][17]



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[1] Atheism.about.com

• [2] [1] Notes for -Princess Joan of Acre- Cnts. Gloucester: Countess of Gloucester and Hertford. Her father had arranged for her to be married to Amadeus of Savoy, but she had already secretly married to Ralph, a member of the Kings household.

• [2] Family Tree Maker, Jeff Goodlove

• [3] Ben-Sasson, H.H., Editor; (1969) A history of the Jewish People. Harfvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, ISBN 0-674-39731-2

• www.wikipedia.org

• [4] [1] "Eleanor of Castile," Microsoft’ Encarta’ Encyclopedia 2000. b 1993-1999 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

• [5] The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism From Ancient Times to the Present Day, Walter Laqueur page 54.

[6] www.wikipedia.org

• [7] A History of God by Karen Armstrong, page 247.



• [8] Encyclopedia Judaica, volume 4 page, 344.

• [9] www.wikipedia.org

• [10] www.wikipedia.org

[11] A history of God

[12] Descendants of Elias Gutleben, Alice Email

[13] The Commander in Chief’s spare words did not tell the entire dramatic story. He himself had galloped to warn the garrison of Fort Lee (across the Hudson from Fort Washington) that the British were coming and had hurried the men out so fast that those preparing a meal could not wait for kettles to cool enough to pack. Even so, they barely won a race with the enemy to a bridge over the Hackensack River and escape. Washington now wrote to General Charles Lee, who had been left in cornmand of a force north of Manhattan, directing him to rejoin the main army in New Jersey. Unknown to the commander, another letter had been inserted with his by Joseph Reed, his former secretary and confidant and now Adjutant General. “I do not mean to flatter or praise you at the expense of any other,” Reed wrote in part to Lee, “but I confess I do think it is entirely owing to you that this army, and the liberties of America, so far as they are dependent on it, are not totally cut off.” Reed heaped more praise on Lee, whose self-esteem as a professional soldier was already monumental, blamed Washington for the loss of Fort Washington, and declared, “Oh! General, an indecisive mind is one of the greatest misfortunes that can befall an army; how often have I lamented it in this campaign.” Washington sent several urgent messages to Lee, all in the same vein.

George Washington, A Bioagraphy in His Own Words, Ed. By Ralph K. Andrist, 1972





[14] JG

[15] William Harrison Goodlove Civil War Diary by Jeff Goodlove

[16] The Horn Papers, Early Westward Movement on the Monongahela and Upper Ohio 1765-1795 by W.F. Horn Published for a Committee of the Greene County Historical Society, Waynesburg, Pennsylvania by the Hagstrom Company, New York, N.Y. 1945

Ref. 33.92 Conrad and Caty by Gary Goodlove 2003



[17] [34]Jungkenn 1:55, Loos to Jungkenn, 30 Nov. 1777. Dr Fischer of Stadtarchiv Frankfurt kindly gave me this last information.
[35] The Hessians by Rodney Atwood 123-127