摘要：It was a sweltering afternoon in New Jersey: jungle-hot, tropically humid, dripping, draining, the kind of day that wrings you out and leaves you lying there gasping in the shade. Few who pass through bustling, indus- trial modern-day Newark think the Garden State lives up to its nickname, let alone merits rain forest status. But on the long, oppressive afternoon of June 28, 1778, it did
