The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn

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Author

Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923

Title

The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn Including a new and circumstantial account of the battle of Long island and the loss of New York, with a review of events to the close of the year

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Produced by Suzanne Shell, Linda Cantoni, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

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English

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E201: History: America: Revolution (1775-1783)

Subject

New York (N.Y.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783

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eBook-No.

21990

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21990

Release Date

July 3, 2007

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE CAMPAIGN OF 1776 AROUND NEW YORK AND BROOKLYN. INCLUDING A NEW AND CIRCUMSTANTIAL ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND AND THE LOSS OF NEW YORK, WITH A REVIEW OF EVENTS TO THE CLOSE OF THE YEAR , CONTAINING MAPS, PORTRAITS, AND ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS. BY HENRY P. JOHNSTON.
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS. — PART I. — PART II.
4. 4.LIST OF MAPS.
5. 5.PORTRAITS. — PART I.
6. 6.THE CAMPAIGN.
7. 7.CHAPTER I. — SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CAMPAIGN—PLANS AND PREPARATIONS.
8. 8.CHAPTER II. — FORTIFYING NEW YORK AND BROOKLYN.
9. 9.CHAPTER III. — THE TWO ARMIES.
10. 10.CHAPTER IV. — THE BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND.
11. 11.CHAPTER V. — THE RETREAT TO NEW YORK.
12. 12.CHAPTER VI. — LOSS OF NEW YORK—KIP'S BAY AFFAIR—BATTLE OF HARLEM HEIGHTS. — Battle of Harlem Heights . [194]
13. 13.CHAPTER VII. — WHITE PLAINS—FORT WASHINGTON. — Fort Washington.
14. 14.CHAPTER VIII. — TRENTON—PRINCETON—CLOSE OF THE CAMPAIGN. — NOTES. — PART II.
15. 15.DOCUMENTS. — [No. 1.] GENERAL GREENE'S ORDERS CAMP ON LONG ISLAND [ Colonel Little's Order Book ] — GENERAL ORDERS. [229] — GEN. GREENE'S ORDERS. — REGIMENTAL ORDERS. — GEN. GREENE'S ORDERS. — GENERAL ORDERS. — GEN. GREENE'S ORDERS. — REGIMENTAL ORDERS. — GEN. GREENE'S ORDERS. — DETAIL. — REGIMENTAL ORDERS FOR THE 12 th REG t OF FOOT. — GEN. GREENE'S ORDERS. — REG l . ORDERS FOR THE 12 th REG t . OF FOOT. — GEN. GREENE'S ORDERS. — REGIMENTAL ORDERS FOR THE 12 TH REG T . OF FOOT. — GENERAL ORDERS. — GEN. GREENE'S MORNING ORDERS. — GENERAL ORDERS. — GEN. GREENE'S ORDERS. — GENERAL ORDERS. — GEN. GREENE'S ORDERS. — GENERAL ORDERS. — GEN. GREENE'S ORDERS. — GENERAL ORDERS. — GEN. GREENE'S ORDERS. — GENERAL ORDERS. — GEN. GREENE'S ORDERS. — REGIMENTAL ORDERS. — GEN. GREENE'S ORDERS. — GENERAL ORDERS. — GEN. GREENE'S ORDERS. — GENERAL ORDERS. — GEN. GREENE'S ORDERS. — GENERAL ORDERS. — GEN. GREENE'S ORDERS. — GENERAL ORDERS. — [No. 2.] MAJOR GENERAL SULLIVAN'S ORDERS CAMP ON LONG ISLAND [ Colonel Little's Order Book ] — [No. 3.] GENERAL ORDERS — [No. 4.] GEN. WASHINGTON TO THE MASSACHUSETTS ASSEMBLY — [No. 5.] BRIG. GEN. PARSONS TO JOHN ADAMS PHILADELPHIA — [No. 6.] BRIG. GEN. SCOTT TO JOHN JAY WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — [No. 7.] COL. JOSEPH TRUMBULL TO HIS BROTHER LEBANON, CONN. — [No. 8.] COL. TRUMBULL TO HIS FATHER LEBANON, CONN. — [No. 9.] COL. MOSES LITTLE TO HIS SON NEWBURYPORT, MASS. — [No. 10.] LIEUT. COL. WILLIAM HENSHAW TO HIS WIFE LEICESTER, MASS. — [No. 11.] DEPOSITION BY LIEUT. COL. HENSHAW — [No. 12.] COL. EDWARD HAND TO HIS WIFE LANCASTER, PENN. — [No. 13.] MAJ. EDWARD BURD TO JUDGE YEATES — [No. 14.] LIEUT. JASPER EWING TO JUDGE YEATES — [No. 15.] JOHN EWING TO JUDGE YEATES — [No. 16.] COL. JOHN HASLET TO HON. CÆSAR RODNEY PHILADELPHIA — [No. 17.] COL. GOLD S. SILLIMAN TO HIS WIFE FAIRFIELD, CONN. — [No. 18.] COL. GOLD S. SILLIMAN TO REV. MR. FISH STONINGTON, CONN. — [No. 19.] ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND — [No. 20.] JOURNAL OF COL. SAMUEL MILES — [No. 21.] LIEUT.-COL. DANIEL BRODHEAD TO —— — [No. 22.] COL. WILLIAM DOUGLAS TO HIS WIFE NORTHFORD, CONN. — [No. 23.] GEN. WOODHULL TO THE NEW YORK CONVENTION HARLEM. — [No. 24.] GEN. WASHINGTON TO ABRAHAM YATES, NEW YORK CONVENTION — [No. 25.] COLONEL HITCHCOCK TO COLONEL LITTLE CAMP ON LONG ISLAND. — [No. 26.] MAJOR TALLMADGE'S ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLES OF LONG ISLAND AND WHITE PLAINS. — [No. 27.] ACCOUNT OF EVENTS ON THE 15 TH AND 16 TH OF SEPTEMBER, 1776, BY PRIVATE JAMES S. MARTIN, OF COL. W M . DOUGLAS' REGIMENT — [No. 28.] CAPT. JOSHUA HUNTINGTON [236] TO —— — [No. 29.] LIEUT. TENCH TILGHMAN [237] TO HIS FATHER, PHILADELPHIA — [No. 30.] CAPT. JOHN GOOCH TO THOMAS FAYERWEATHER, BOSTON, MASS. — [No. 31.] — ACCOUNT OF THE RETREAT FROM NEW YORK AND AFFAIR OF HARLEM HEIGHTS, BY COLONEL DAVID HUMPHREY — [No. 32.] — TESTIMONY AT A COURT OF INQUIRY RESPECTING THE RETREAT FROM NEW YORK [238] — [No. 33.] MAJOR BAURMEISTER'S NARRATIVE OF THE CAPTURE OF NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER, 1776 [239] — [No. 34.] COLONEL JOHN CHESTER TO JOSEPH WEBB WEATHERSFIELD, CONN. — [No. 35.] COL. JOHN GLOVER TO HIS MOTHER MARBLEHEAD, MASS. — [No. 36.] GENERAL GREENE TO COLONEL KNOX WHITE PLAINS. — [No. 37.] DIARY OF REV. MR. SHEWKIRK, PASTOR OF THE MORAVIAN CHURCH, NEW YORK [240] — 1775. — 1776. — 1777. — [No. 38.] MAJOR NICHOLAS FISH TO RICHARD VARICK — [No. 39.] SURGEON WILLIAM EUSTIS TO DR. TOWNSEND BOSTON, MASS. — [No. 40.] CAPTAIN NATHAN HALE TO HIS BROTHER — [No. 41.] EXTRACT FROM A LETTER FROM NEW YORK — [No. 42.] EXTRACTS FROM THE LONDON CHRONICLE SEPT.—OCT. 1776. — FROM A BRITISH OFFICER AT NEW YORK, SEPT. 6, 1776. — LETTER FROM NEW YORK. Oct. 20, 1776. — LETTER FROM WHITE PLAINS. — [No. 43.] EXTRACT FROM THE MEMOIRS OF COLONEL RUFUS PUTNAM [243] WRITTEN BY HIMSELF — [No. 44.] SCATTERING ORDERS BY GENERALS LEE, SPENCER, GREENE AND NIXON [ Colonel Little's Order Book ] — GENERAL SPENCER'S ORDERS. — GENERAL NIXON'S ORDERS. — GENERAL GREENE'S ORDERS. — GENERAL NIXON'S ORDERS. — GENERAL LEE'S ORDERS. — [No. 45.] GENERAL LEE TO COLONEL CHESTER — [No. 46.] CAPTAIN BRADFORD'S ACCOUNT OF THE CAPTURE OF GENERAL LEE [244] — [No. 47.] GENERAL OLIVER WOLCOTT TO HIS WIFE LITCHFIELD, CONN.
16. 16.BATTLES OF TRENTON AND PRINCETON. — [No. 48.] CAPTAIN WILLIAM HULL TO ANDREW ADAMS LITCHFIELD, CONN. — [No. 49.] COLONEL KNOX TO HIS WIFE — [No. 50.] COL. HASLET TO CÆSAR RODNEY — [No. 51.] JOURNAL OF CAPTAIN THOMAS RODNEY [247] — [No. 52.] POSITION OF THE BRITISH AT THE CLOSE OF THE CAMPAIGN
17. 17.RETURNS AND STATEMENTS OF PRISONERS.
18. 18.1776. — [No. 53.] NARRATIVE OF LIEUT. JABEZ FITCH [248] TAKEN PRISONER ON LONG ISLAND. — [No. 54.] EXTRACT FROM THE JOURNAL OF LIEUT. WILLIAM McPHERSON [249] TAKEN PRISONER ON LONG ISLAND. — [No. 55.] DEPOSITION OF PRIVATE FOSTER TAKEN PRISONER ON LONG ISLAND. — [No. 56.] LETTERS FROM CAPT. NATHANIEL FITZ RANDOLPH, OF NEW JERSEY WRITTEN WHILE PRISONER. [250] — [No. 57.] EXTRACT FROM THE JOURNAL OF CAPT. JAMES MORRIS, PRISONER AT FLATBUSH, L.I. [251] — [No. 58.] BRITISH PRISONERS TAKEN BY THE AMERICANS ON LONG ISLAND — [No. 59.] A RETURN OF THE PRISONERS TAKEN IN YORK DURING THE CAMPAIGN 1776 — [No. 60.] — LIST OF AMERICAN OFFICERS TAKEN PRISONERS AT THE BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND [252] — Three Generals. — Three Colonels. — Four Lieut.-Colonels. — Three Majors. — Eighteen Captains. — Forty-three Lieutenants. — Eleven Ensigns . — Staff . — [No. 61.] LIST OF AMERICAN NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS TAKEN PRISONERS, KILLED, OR MISSING, AT THE BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND — COL. TYLER'S REGT.—TENTH CONTINENTAL [CONN.] — COL. HITCHCOCK'S REG'T.—ELEVENTH CONTINENTAL [R.I.] — COL. LITTLE'S REG'T.—TWELFTH CONTINENTAL [MASS.] — COL. HUNTINGTON'S REG'T.—SEVENTEENTH CONTINENTAL [CONN.] — COL. JONATHAN WARD'S REG'T.—TWENTY-FIRST CONTINENTAL [MASS.]. — COL. WYLLYS' REG'T.—TWENTY-SECOND CONTINENTAL [CONN.]. — COL. MILES' REG'T.—[PENN.] [264] — COL. ATLEE'S REG'T.—[PENN.] — LIEUT.-COL. KACHLEIN'S REG'T.—[PENN.] — COL. GAY'S REG'T.—[CONN.] — COL. CHESTER'S REG'T.—[CONN.]
19. 19.BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
20. 20.THE MAPS. — PLAN OF THE BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND AND THE BROOKLYN DEFENCES. — THE STILES SKETCH OF THE BROOKLYN WORKS. — EWING'S DRAUGHT. — MAP OF NEW YORK CITY AND OF MANHATTAN ISLAND, WITH THE AMERICAN DEFENCES IN 1776. — FIELD OF THE HARLEM HEIGHTS AFFAIR. — NEW YORK AND BROOKLYN WITH THEIR ENVIRONS IN 1776.
21. 21.THE PORTRAITS.
22. 22.INDEX. — A. — B. — C. — D. — E. — F. — G. — H. — I. — J. — K. — L. — M. — N. — O. — P. — R. — S. — T. — V. — W. — Y.
23. 23.ERRATA.
24. 24.FOOTNOTES

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