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Ben Franklin's World - 454 Life Between Two Armies: Westchester County and the American Revolution

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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…