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Newspaper

General Evening Post

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Dec 29, 1776

Page

3

Howe's 1776 New York Campaign Dispatches Reach Home

Postscript from Whitehall dated December 30 1776 reports General Howe's naval and land actions around New York including landings at Frogs Neck Westchester and King's Bridge, actions at Rochelle Mamaroneck White Plains and Fort Washington, heavy fighting with Hessians and British regiments, captures of prisoners and artillery, and preparations for attacks on King’s Bridge Haerlem Creek and Fort Washington with notes on losses and logistics from October to November.

Whitehall Gardner Wiliam Howe New- York Sir William Howe Lord George Germain Balfour New-York Conneticut King’s Bridge Hell Gate Frogs Neck West Chester Carrysfort Lord Howe Hotham Earl Percy Haerlem New York Staten Island Peélls Point Hatchinson’s East Chester Rochelle Mulrave Light Dragoons Harcourt 17Th Light Dragoons White Plains Heister Roget Mamaroneck Agnew Knyphausen Fort Washington Bronx Valentine’s Hill Connecticut North River Fron King’s Sridge White Clinton King’s Army Rate William Erskine Leslie Donop Baille Heffan Grenadiers Heffians Terry Town Carr Lord Percy North Castle Knyphansen Waldeck Miles Square Fordham Grant Dobbs’s Ferry White Plain Kingsbridge Knyphausens Kingibridge West Chester Rad King’s Ferry Jersey Croton-bridge Peck’s Hill Highlands York King Bridge Fort Lee Wilkinson Molloy Patterson Forsimon Kniphausen Raille Mathew Haerlém Creek Lord Cornwallis Batteaux Morris Lord’ Percy York Iland Kingbridge Haerlem Creek Inyphausen Grenadiers Sterling 47T Pai Gistas Railley Kayphauten Fort-Lite North Phipps Jiog Earl Cerowallis Vaughan Hackining River 16Th Dragoons Wader Pifaick River Brunswick C. Bec W. Howe George Germain West Chester County Howey Majers Fap-Neck West-Qheler Mason Dastmouth Torma Lord Viscount Howe Eagle York Island Kep’s Bay Last Moth Hotstam North Royer Jefferys Hook Yorke Iland Jeph Parker-in Barket

Notable British Units Listed for Deployment

The record enumerates military formations including the first and second battalions of light infantry two chauffeur companies two battalions of braush two groups of Hessian grenadiers seven battalions of guards and the 33d and 42d regiments for consideration or action.

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