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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
A view from Battle Hill, the highest point in King's County, looking west toward Upper New York Harbor and New Jersey, where Lord Stirling confronted about 300 Continental Army troops under Colonel Atlee and General Parsons, who attacked the British successively, ultimately took Battle Hill, and inflicted the highest casualties against the ...
New York: British victory: British defeat American naval force on Lake Champlain, but victory comes too late to press the offensive against the Hudson valley Battle of Mamaroneck: October 22, 1776 New York British tactical victory Battle of White Plains: October 28, 1776: New York: British victory Battle of Fort Cumberland: November 10–29 ...
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.
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.
The site of Fort Washington is now Bennett Park on Fort Washington Avenue between West 183rd and 185th streets in Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York City.The locations of the fort's walls are marked in the park by stones, along with an inscription.
On August 27, 1776, during the Battle of Long Island, five cannons, a series of earthworks and a defensive wall were manned by colonials on an island in New York Bay. [2] It was the westernmost of forts along Brooklyn Heights, defending the Upper New York Bay from incursion by the British navy. [3]
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.