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On this day 250 years ago on Long Island (in what is now the Queens borough of New York City), British sailors from the brig HMS Halifax raided and stole goods from a warehouse owned by Francis Lewis, one of the members of New York’s delegation to the Continental Congress and a signer of the…
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On this day 250 years ago in New York City, General Washington consolidated the remnants of the Pennsylvania militia battalions from Northampton County and Berks County with Lt. Col. Edward Hand’s regiment of Pennsylvania riflemen. The Northampton and Berks County battalions had lost many of their men captured at the Battle of Brooklyn, including their…
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On this day 250 years ago in New York, the Continental Army had completed its evacuation of Long Island. The evacuation had begun at 7:00 pm the previous evening and had taken all night. The evacuation was aided by weather producing wind that prevented the British Navy from sailing into the East River to intercept…
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On this day 250 years ago at a council of war at his headquarters in the “Four Chimneys” house on Brooklyn Heights in New York, General Washington ordered the withdrawal of the Continental Army from Long Island to Manhattan under cover of darkness that evening. Beginning at 7:00 pm the experienced Massachusetts seamen of Col.…
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On this day 250 years ago on Long Island in New York, the British Army was encamped in an arc in front of the American forces entrenched on Brooklyn Heights preparing to assault the American lines. On that day General Washington had brought reinforcements from Manhattan so that there were 9500 men — more than…
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On this day 250 years ago on Long Island (in the present-day Brooklyn), New York, the Americans were defeated in the largest battle of the Revolution in terms of the number of men engaged. The Battle of Brooklyn or Long Island was a disaster for the Americans. Gen. Washington underestimated the number of British and…
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On this day 250 years ago at about 8:00 pm in the village of Flatlands on Long Island in what is now Brooklyn, New York, 4000 British troops with 14 cannon commanded by Generals Sir Henry Clinton and Lord Charles Cornwallis began a flanking march around the 3000 Continental soldiers under Maj. Gen. John Sullivan,…
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On this day 250 years ago near Flatbush village on Long Island (present day Brooklyn), Connecticut militia under Col. Gold Silliman skirmished with the British. To the east of the British Army, Brig. Gen. Nathaniel Woodhull commanded 100 Long Island militia to guard against British patrols and to herd cattle further east on Long Island…
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On this day 250 years ago at Crown Point on Lake Champlain, New York, a flotilla of ten American ships sailed north on Lake Champlain under the command of Brig. Gen. Benedict Arnold to confront the British fleet leading an invasion from Canada. Sources: Nelson, James L., Benedict Arnold’s Navy, The Ragtag Fleet that Lost…
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On this day 250 years ago on Long Island (present-day Brooklyn), New York, Col. Edward Hand’s riflemen drove back a Hessian patrol and captured and burned three houses near Flatbush that Hessians were using as an outpost. The Americans retreated when Hessian reinforcements arrived. The Hessians lost one man killed and at least two wounded…
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