In the Battle of Bound Brook he was defeated by a much larger force under the command of Lord Cornwallis, barely escaping capture.
Lincoln County was named for Major General Benjamin Lincoln, second in command of the U.S. Army at the end of the Revolutionary War.
He was just in time to be included with the prisoners when General Benjamin Lincoln surrendered Charleston on May 12, 1780.
The success of the citizen-soldiers in defending their own homes began to reverse the fortunes of war in Georgia, prompting the new Continental commander in the region, Major General Benjamin Lincoln, to take the offensive.
Abraham Lincoln | Benjamin Franklin | Lincoln | Benjamin Britten | Lincoln, Nebraska | Benjamin Harrison | Benjamin Disraeli | Benjamin Netanyahu | Walter Benjamin | Lincoln's Inn | Lincoln Memorial | Lincoln Cathedral | Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts | Lincoln City F.C. | Lincoln City | Lincoln's Inn Fields | Bishop of Lincoln | Benjamin West | Lincoln Park | Lincoln, England | Benjamin Zephaniah | Lincoln County | Benjamin Rush | Lincoln Ellsworth | Breaking Benjamin | Lincoln Park, Chicago | Lincoln Laboratory | Lincoln Highway | Lincoln (2012 film) | George Benjamin |
Captain Ingraham named the group Washington Islands, and named many of the individual islands: Washington Island for the president, Adams Island for the vice president, Federal Island, Franklin Island, Knox Island, and lastly Lincoln Island for a general.