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The New York and New Jersey campaign in 1776 and the winter months of 1777 was a series of American Revolutionary War battles for control of the Port of New York and the state of New Jersey, fought between British forces under General Sir William Howe and the Continental Army under General George Washington.
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Washington then began to transfer regiments to New York City, which he believed the British would attack next because of the port's strategic importance. [8] [9] He had sent his second-in-command, Charles Lee, ahead to New York the previous February to establish the city's defenses. [10]
New York and New Jersey campaign, a series of battles for control of New York City and the state of New Jersey in the American Revolutionary War in 1776 and early 1777 Saratoga campaign , an attempt by the British high command for North America to gain military control of Hudson River valley during the American Revolutionary War in 1777
The Battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776, was a significant British victory in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War over American forces under the command of General George Washington, and the opening battle in a successful British campaign to gain control of New York City in 1776.
A portrait of Major John Andre remains upside down at the '76 House in Tappan. General George Washington turned it over when Andre was hung as a spy after giving the plans of West Point to ...
The Battle of Harlem Heights was fought during the New York and New Jersey campaign of the American Revolutionary War.The action took place on September 16, 1776, in what is now the Morningside Heights area and east into the future Harlem neighborhoods of northwestern Manhattan Island in what is now part of New York City.
The Landing at Kip's Bay was a British amphibious landing during the New York campaign in the American Revolutionary War on September 15, 1776. It occurred on the East River shore of Manhattan north of what then constituted New York City.