Fort Lee Historic Park

Fort Lee was part of a series of fortifications built by the Patriot army in New York and New Jersey to protect against the vastly larger British navy and army. After the fall of New York City, most Patriot forces fell back to Fort Lee on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River. They planned to use it to shell any crossing, but after Cornwallis's force bypassed it to the north, Washington's men beat a hasty retreat further inland. 

The park boasts a yearly "Retreat Weekend" where reenactors gather to remember and recreate the "times that try men's souls", when the newly created American army was on the run and the future of the nation was in question.