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Mountain pass in New Jersey, USA

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The Hobart Gap is a pass and road through the Watchung Mountains in Northern New Jersey. During the American Revolutionary War, Hessian General Baron Wilhelm von Knyphausen attempted to seize the Hobart Gap, now crossed by present-day Route 24, in order to attack the American headquarters in Morristown for the British. He was met with successful resistance by General Nathanael Greene, and was eventually defeated by the Continental Army and the New Jersey Militia at the Battle of Springfield.

For thousands of years the pass in the mountain range was an important aspect of the traditional Lenape Minisink Trail. From the pass, the trail led to a landing at the best place to ford what the Native Americans called the Fishawack (the Passaic River). The trail was a portion of the Great Trail and always had been used by the Lenape on their route to the Hudson River and south from their hunting grounds in what is now Sussex County. That traditional part of the Great Trail would become Route 24, and leads from the pass through Chatham, Madison, Morristown, Mendham, and Chester; it is called Main Street in all but Morristown, the county seat, which is dominated by a square in the center of its downtown. Route 24 was recently redirected around the old road in order to retain the historical downtowns of the colonial villages through which the trail led. The portion of the original path is now labeled Route 124.

External links

Battle of Springfield Archived 2014-04-07 at the Wayback Machine
Local DAR history of the battle

40°43′N 74°19′W / 40.717°N 74.317°W / 40.717; -74.317

v t e Gaps of the Appalachian Mountains
Water gaps	Cumberland Narrows Brocks Gap Delaware Water Gap Gaps of the Allegheny Blair Gap Kittanning Gap Goshen Pass Hillsboro Gap James River Gorge Lehigh Gap Loysburg Gap Mechanicsburg Gap Moccasin Gap The Narrows Potomac Water Gap Reeds Gap Schuylkill Gap Swatara Gap Thoroughfare Gap
Wind gaps	Ashby Gap Buford's Gap Carmans Notch Chester Gap Crampton's Gap Cumberland Gap Deep Notch Diamond Notch Fishers Gap Fox's Gap Jarman Gap Keyes Gap Maggoty Gap Manassas Gap McCormick Gap New Market Gap Pound Gap Rockfish Gap Snickers Gap Swift Run Gap Thornton Gap Turner's Gap Wilson Gap
Passes	Appalachian Gap Balsam Gap Brock Gap Buck Creek Gap Bull Gap Carter Notch Cowee Gap Craven Gap Crawford Notch Deals Gap Dixville Notch Evans Notch Franconia Notch Gillespie Gap Grafton Notch Grandmother Gap Granville Notch Hazen's Notch Hobart Gap Kinsman Notch Lincoln Gap Mahoosuc Notch Middlebury Gap Monterey Pass Newfound Gap Pinkham Notch Sherburne Pass Skinners Gap Smugglers Notch Soco Gap Stony Clove Notch Swannanoa Gap Zealand Notch
Artificial cuts	Clarke's Gap

v t e New Jersey in the American Revolution
1776	Turtle Gut Inlet New York and New Jersey campaign Fort Lee Geary ambush Iron Works Hill Delaware River crossing First Trenton
1777	Assunpink Creek (Second Trenton) Princeton Millstone Forage War Bound Brook First Middlebrook encampment Short Hills Red Bank Gloucester
1778	Quinton's Bridge Monmouth Baylor Massacre Affair at Little Egg Harbor Chestnut Neck Second Middlebrook encampment
1779	Paulus Hook Jockey Hollow New Jersey Brigade encampment
1780	Connecticut Farms Springfield Bull's Ferry
1781	Pennsylvania Line Mutiny
1783	U.S. Capital at Princeton
Other	Fort Billingsport Fort Mercer Mary Hays ("Molly Pitcher") New Bridge Landing Pluckemin Cantonment Temperance Wick
See also: Crossroads of the American Revolution National Heritage Area, Morristown National Historical Park, Washington Crossing State Park

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