{"id":45,"date":"2013-06-26T06:04:52","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T06:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2016-06-12T06:25:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T06:25:23","slug":"morgan-memorial-lieutenant-nicholas-morgan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/sample-page\/morgan-family\/morgan-memorial-lieutenant-nicholas-morgan\/","title":{"rendered":"Lieutenant Nicholas Morgan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Grave of Revolutionary War Lieutenant Nicholas Morgan of the 2nd Regiment, Middlesex County Militia in the Morgan Family Cemetery in Morgan, NJ.<\/p><\/div>\n

Morgan Memorial \u2013 Lieutenant Nicholas Morgan<\/h3>\n

On July 4, 2012, I found myself reflecting on this, the most important of our national holidays, and thinking about the goings on in and around Morgan in July of 1776.\u00a0 As discussed in the\u00a0Battle of Long Island posting<\/a>, at this time in 1776 the British were landing men on Staten Island for what was to become the largest amphibious invasion in history until the Allied invasions of World War II – some 160+ years later. The Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4 but wasn\u2019t able to be read in the New Jersey \/ New York area until a few days later.\u00a0 Remember this was before motorized transportation and remote electronic communications existed.\u00a0 All transportation and communication was either by foot, animal or boat.\u00a0 The Continental Army\u2019s Commander-in-Chief General George Washington ordered the declaration read to his troops in New York City, i.e., the southernmost part of present day Manhattan Island, on July 9.\u00a0 Note that later that evening, the Americans destroyed a bronze statue of Great Britain’s King George III which stood at the foot of Broadway on the Bowling Green.<\/p>\n

I also found myself reflecting on two other related topics.\u00a0 The first being what would today\u2019s world be like if the American Revolution had failed?\u00a0 What if Washington and his army had not been able to escape out of New York that summer after losing the Battle of Long Island?\u00a0 It stands to reason that all of the rebels would have been identified and the leaders most likely executed.\u00a0 Their leadership to the new country would have not occurred and another fork in the road would have been followed.\u00a0 I am certainly no expert in this \u201cWhat if\u201d situation and haven\u2019t really read anything about this scenario but certainly the world as we know if would be quite different, if we had been born at all.\u00a0 Here are some of my amateur ramblings, what do you think?<\/p>\n