Stony Point

noun

a village in SE New York, on the Hudson: site of a strategic fort in the Revolutionary War.

James Gibbon, the hero of Stony point, died at Richmond, where for several years he had been collector of customs.

The point of this instrument was broken off in the wall of the fort at Stony Point, when in the body of a British soldier.

Two days afterwards, Washington, with his chief officers, rode down to Stony Point and heard the whole story.

Washington did not, of course, intend to hold Stony Point, for the enemy could besiege it by land and by water.

Stony Point was in possession of the enemy, strongly fortified and filled with heavy ordnance.

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