PLEASE NOTE LOCATION CHANGE: This tour now departs from the Holiday Inn Capitol at 550 C Street, S.W.

Honed by the winter at Valley Forge and disciplined in the science of war by drillmaster Baron Friedrich von Steuben, the Continental Army more than held its own against the British Grenadiers in the Battle of Monmouth. It was the longest sustained battle of the Revolutionary War and the last major engagement in the northern theater. An outstanding trail system at New Jersey’s Monmouth Battlefield State Park allows participants to walk in the footsteps of Gen. George Washington, the legendary Molly Pitcher, and others who stood tall on the long, hot day of June 28, 1778.

After our noon meal, we take two walking tours: The first takes us across Spotswood South Brook and into the hedgerows of the Parsonage farm where “Mad” Anthony Wayne’s Pennsylvanians battled the elite British Grenadiers. The second takes us to Perrine Hill, where the American artillery pounded the British. Between the two walking tours, we visit the old Tennent Church and its cemetery.

Historian Ed Bearss leads this tour.

7 a.m. to 9 p.m. by bus from the Holiday Inn Capitol at 550 C Street, S.W. (click here for details & map), with a pickup stop at the I-495 Exit 27 commuter parking lot at about 7:25 a.m.

Participants purchase their own supper during a rest stop on the return trip.

This tour was originally titled "New Jersey Battles of Monmouth and Princeton." If you are specifically interested in the Battle of Princeton you might consider the tour Crossing the Delaware: Battles of Trenton and Princeton on Saturday, February 6.