If you’ve ever flown into Philadelphia from the New Jersey side, you’ve passed right over one of the most dramatic and least-known battles of the American Revolution.
Fort Mifflin, now sitting directly beneath the landing pattern of jets heading into Philadelphia International Airport, looks quiet today.
But in the fall of 1777, this muddy island in the Delaware River was the scene of one of the most lopsided, desperate, and important fights of the entire Revolutionary War…