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Jockey Hollow
Jockey Hollow is a unit of Morristown National Historical Park in Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey, United States. It was twice used as a winter encampment by the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.〔(National Park Service: Morristown National Historical Park )〕
==History==
On October 17, 1779, the Continental Army camped for the winter at Jockey Hollow. Soldiers camped at this location until June, 1780, during which they endured some of the harshest conditions of the war.〔National Park Service, Morristown Pamphlet. Morristown National Historic Park, 2007〕 This was strategically sound because the elevation of Jockey Hollow was several hundred feet above the British to the east. The mountainous range also allowed revolutionary soldiers to spot British movement.〔Adams, Hugh W., Morristown National Historic Park. Christine Retz. New Jersey: Washington Association of New Jersey, 1982〕 In the days of horsepower, this was considered an impregnable redoubt. Another reason why the location was chosen was because the surrounding area held citizens that were sympathetic to the rebel cause.〔 That winter was the "cruelest" of the war, including the one at Valley Forge the two years before. Twelve men often shared one of over one thousand simple huts built in Jockey Hollow to house the army.〔 Desertions were common place. The entire Pennsylvania contingent successfully mutinied, and later 200 New Jersey soldiers attempted to emulate them. Several of the ringleaders of the latter were hanged.
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