Baylor Massacre Park

 The historical site that I actually stumbled upon this week was something I found absolutely fascinating. I had the mindset that I was looking for a historical site at some point this week so that I could make this blog post, and on a random trip to one of my girlfriend's competitions in Old Tappan I stumbled upon this site which I found absolutely fascinating as somebody who loves Revolutionary War History more than any other kind of history. Lt. Col George Baylor who was a trusted friend and military colleague of General George Washington during the Revolutionary War, was assigned to a special operations type group called the "Continental Dragoons" on the night of September 28th, 1778 the group of Dragoons set up to sleep for the night in the area surrounding this burial site, and Tories who were in the area gave them up to a local British general who happened to have been a ruthless, blood obsessed general of the British military named Charles Grey. Grey went by the nickname "No Flint" given to him when during the Battle of Paoli he ordered his troops to take the flint out of their rifles and charge at the enemy with just fixed bayonets. That type of warfare was once again used during the Baylor Massacre as in the middle of the night, after finding where the Dragoons were staying, Grey once again ordered his men to not shoot, and only use bayonets. They surprised the Dragoons as they were sleeping, killing 15 and wounding and capturing 54 more, one of which was Lt. Col Baylor. Baylor was stabbed in the leg, and after being released from being a prisoner of war, eventually succumbed to his injuries a short while later. This battle was considered to be one of the most controversial and brutal acts carried out by the British Military as War was considered to be a "classy" and "orderly" thing,  and this attack was considered, especially by the American Separatists an act of extreme violence, brutality, and classlessness on the part of the British Military.