He was singularly responsible for emplacing the chain at Fort Montgomery prior to the British attack on that post in the fall of 1777.
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In 1776 he was dispatched by George Washington to the Hudson Highlands to assist in defending the Hudson River and creating emplacements an obstructions in an alongside the river from Fort Montgomery up to Kingston.
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who had made a wager with French General Rochambeau regarding the relative accuracy of French and American Artillery by blowing up a British troop transport.
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He was the son of Reverend Thomas Machin and received his education at the Upper Canada College.
Machin was the son of Thomas Machin Jr., a Brigadier General of the militia and veteran of the War of 1812; and grandson of Captain Thomas Machin the architect of the great West Point Chain which was emplaced in 1778 to prevent the British from ascending the Hudson River.