Description: A plan of the Battle of Long Island (August 27, 1776), also known as the Battle of Brooklyn, fought between the British army under General Howe and the Americans under George Washington during the American Revolutionary War. The map shows the British position on Staten Island and of the British Fleet in the Narrows and their landing site, the American position near Gravesend, and the line of retreat of the Americans to Brooklyn Heights.
Place Names: Early America 1400-1800, New York, Long Island, American Revolutio
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Keywords: Battle of Long Island, historical, kAmericanRevolution, kBattle, American Revolution, Unknown, 1776
Source: Ernest Rhys, Ed., A Literary and Historical Atlas of North & South America (New York, NY: E.P. Dutton & CO., 1911) 118
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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