In this August 1776 proclamation ... display as part of the New-York Historical Society’s exhibition on the Battle of Brooklyn (sometimes known as the Battle of Long Island).

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the former prevailing among the landowning classes in lower New York. We get profiles of many people, some still well known, most long forgotten, military movements during the Battle of Brooklyn / ...

The first Westchester deployment occurred in October, 1776, during the war’s bleakest ... by the disastrous American defeat at the Battle of Long Island in August. Washington’s long retreat from New ...

21, 1776, just as the British army and armada were occupying New York, forcing the withdrawal of Washington’s ragtag army after its defeat on Long Island. The fire did serious damage ...