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Through works of art often drawn from area museums\, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, the Delaware Art Museu m\, and the New-York Historical Society\, see how artists of his own time portrayed him for posterity and how that posterity\, through its own crop of artists\, commemorated his deeds.

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Mike got his BA in classics f rom the University of California at San Diego and his MA in classics and P h.D. in art history at the Museum \;of Art in New York and has lecture d \;on trips all over the world. \;He lives in Teaneck\, New Jerse y. \;

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During the \;Revolutionary War\, General \;Georg e Washington \;used the protection of the Watchung mountains to erect the first and second \;Middlebrook encampments \;in the \;Wash ington Valley \;between the ridges. This position on the high ground a lso allowed him to monitor the area between \;Perth Amboy \;and&nb sp\;New Brunswick \;as well as to identify and disturb British movemen ts between \;Manhattan \;and \;Philadelphia.

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