 Complete the following phrase:  General Washington at Fort Lee 1910 was an unusual choice of subject for a mural, since it depicted one of the Continental Armys most humiliating defeats in the Revolutionary War. Fort Washington was located at the northern end of Manhattan Island, on a bluff of high land along the Hudson River. Fort Lee was located on the opposite side of the Hudson, atop the Palisades, in New Jersey. The twin forts were about apartseparated by the width of the riverand both had been built in Summer 1776 to prevent British warships from sailing any further north up the Hudson. On the morning of November 16, 1776, the British Army executed a 