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Memorial to the Battle of Kingsbridge
The Bronx
Seventeen Stockbridge Mohican Indians Killed Here on August 31, 1778
In addition, twenty-five more American Indian soldiers of Nimham's Indian Company also lost their lives
that day -
THIS IS THEIR STORY
Kingsbridge, The Bronx & Westchester County During the American Revolution
A Dark & Bloody Ground - A No-Man's Land between the British in Manhattan and the Continentals at White
Plains
Scene of Constant Skirmishing, Plunder, & Ambush
Van Cortlandt's Mill & Mile Square Road are now
Van Cortlandt Park
Indian Field is the Final Resting Place of some 40 American Indian Soldiers Killed on August 31, 1778
Patriots' Blood is the real life story of a unique combat unit initiated by General
Washington at Valley Forge during the bleak winter encampment of the United States Army.
Drawn from tribes across New England, with Oneida and Tuscarora warriors included, the Indian Company consisted
of some sixty men under the command of Wappinger Captain Abraham Nimham (living at the time at Stockbridge, Mass.)
Tribes represented included the Mohican, Wappinger, Pequot, Mohegan, Wampanoag, Niantic, Tunxis, Narragansett
and virtually all the Indian communities residing in New England. In addition, Iroquois warriors fought side-by-side
with their Algonquian cousins against the British Army.
The site of the battle, also known to history as the Stockbridge Indian Massacre, is now Van Cortlandt Park
in the Bronx. The battlefield and the military cemetery still remain as open, undeveloped ground. The rock walls
and outcrops that sheltered the Indians from an ambush of over 500 Loyalist & Hessian dragoons and soldiers remain to
this day.
Patriots' Blood - the Screenplay, tells the story of these American Indian Heroes from Valley Forge to that
fateful day in the Bronx.
The following three pages provide sample scenes from the screenplay.
For Further Information
For Information on the Indian Company of 1778
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