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Stonington, CTStonington, CT

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Long Beach Island, NJLong Beach Island, NJ

Overview of the Battle for New YorkOverview of the Battle for New YorkThe Start of the War• July 3, 1776 – British land on

Staten Island• August 1776 – British

General Howe transports troops to Long Island (Brooklyn today)

• Washington aims to defend Long Island and Manhattan

• Howe attacks in Brooklyn• Washington crosses over to

Manhattan• Action at Kips Bay and

Harlem Heights• Washington crosses over to

the Bronx

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Washington and the Patriots

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The Setting…The Setting…The British headquarters was in New York City, and its army had

outposts along what is now the Bronx/Westchester border.  The Bronx was then a part of the County of Westchester.  The American lines, north of the Croton River, stretched from Peekskill to Connecticut and down to Long Island Sound.

Time and again during those seven long years, the inhabitants of Westchester were victims of raids, pillage and plunder by the armies and outlaw bands of British and Americans alike.  No other area of the thirteen states was subjected to the hardships of the American Revolutionary War for so long a period of time.

Galleria The Westchester

WallaboutWallabout BayBayPresent day Greenpoint, BrooklynPresent day Greenpoint, Brooklyn

• More Americans died in British prison ships in New York Harbor than in all the battles of the Revolutionary War

• At least 16 floating prisons were anchored in Wallabout Bay on the East River for most of the war

• They were sinkholes of filth, vermin, infectious disease and despair

• The most notorious was the Jersey

• Only 1,400 survivors

The Ambush of Stockbridge The Ambush of Stockbridge IndiansIndians

BritishBritish

DeVoe’s Farm

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