Talk:Battle of Paulus Hook

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This article seems to be full of a lot of weasel words. References to how brave and stout troops were seem emotive rather than factual. Also at the end of the article there is talk of the British being annoyed by the Americans jubilation doesn’t offer any explanation. Which British people were annoyed? Was everyone in Britain angry? The Military? The ones who had been taken prisoner? Who says that they were angry? Why were they any more angry then most people are when they lose a battle? How did they know about the Americans being jubilant? For that matter...which Americans were jubilant? All of them? The army that was present? It reads like it has been copied straight from a text book and needs seriously revision/rewriting with proper sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.89.224.75 (talk) 13:36, 13 July 2012 (UTC)


 * This is a very poorly written article. It badly needs to be "cleaned up."
 * John Kelly
 * 209.197.129.19 01:43, 11 March 2007 (UTC)


 * It appears to be a cut-and-paste from a nineteenth-century or early twentieth-century account of the battle - note the reference to "Dr. Hornblower's grandmother." It would be lovely to find the citation for this; it's almost certainly taken from a history of Jersey City or New Jersey.


 * There's a somewhat more detailed account at http://www.cityofjerseycity.com/history2.html, taken from a 1960 history.


 * RG

Removal of one sentence regarding Colonel Van Boskirk
I'm a passer-by, not an expert. I agree entirely with everything posted above, which I note is now 16 years old. I removed the following text appended to the summary, immediately before the Contents box: "The same night, Colonel Van Boskirk left Paulus Hook with a force of one hundred and thirty men to make a raid upon the neighborhood. Fortunately the two parties did not meet." There is no other mention of Colonel Van Boskirk, no hint as to where he took his force from or which army he belonged to - one can guess, of course, but it's scarcely encyclopedia material Least of all that dreadful "Fortunately". As an article the whole thing leaves much to be desired, but that specific sentence is intolerable. JohnHarris (talk) 11:40, 26 September 2023 (UTC)