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British Retreat Route

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Seeking the protection of Middletown's hills on June 29, 1778, the day after the Battle of Monmouth, the main British army under Gen. Sir Henry Clinton withdrew along this road toward Sandy Hook, from which they embarked for New York a week later.
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