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Long Island Campaign Dispatch from Howe to Germain
A London Gazette Extraordinary excerpt dated September 1776 recounts Howe's Newtown to Brooklyn operations on Long Island. It details troop movements, landings near Utrecht Flatbush and Flatland, assaults on the Brooklyn defenses, and the night retreat to Governor's Island. It lists captured artillery, prisoners, and casualties, with officers and regiments named, including Hessians and American Provincials. The document also notes a naval landing plan and a Howe cover letter to Lord Germain.
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Waitenart
Ozrossr
Cuyler
General Howe
Howe
Lord George Germain
Newtown
Long Iland
Donop
Utrecht
Long Island
Hotham
Clinton
Woody Heights
Flatbush
Brooklyn
Lord Cornwallis
Flat-bath
Gravesend
Flat- Land
de Heller
Staten Island
14Th
Virginia
Dalrymple
de Hepster
Bedford
Jamaica
Lord Percy
Musquetry
Genenddé Heister
Grenadier
Grant
New York
2D Grenadiers
Putnam
Sulivan
Lord Stirling
Udell
Coonel Monckton
Redhook
Governor’s Island
King’s Bridge
de Camp
E. W. Howe
Jos
Lorrie
Long Ifand
Governor's Island
Admiralty Office
Lord Viscoant Howe
Vick
North America
Mr. Stephens
Eagle
Bedlow’s Island
New-York
Parker
Phenix
Rofé
Wallace
Tryal
Chogner
Brown
North
Sthten
Angle
Gravésend
Luiz Iland
Dickon
Rose
James
Vandeput
Mason
Curtis
Cauldwell
Phipps
Caulfield
Appleby
Duncan
Reeve