Publisher's Synopsis
Under the title The Revolutionary History of Fort Number Eight, on Morris Heights, New York City, Professor John C. Schwab has privately printed a narrative of the military events of the Revolutionary war on Manhattan Island and in Westchester County, with especial reference to the relation of those transactions to the fortification named, in which local attachments give him special interest. The narrative is carefully constructed out of general materials on the one hand and on the other hand those of a local and private nature; and is illustrated by a map. A brief history of the manor of Fordham precedes. The amount of matter directly relating to Fort Number Eight is not large.
--The American Historical Review, Vol. 3
