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Long Island Landing and Battle of Brooklyn 1776
Historic August 1776 portrait of the British and Hessian invasion across the Narrows to Gravesend Bay near Brooklyn Heights. Washington’s American forces fight delaying actions at Guan Heights, Jamaica Pass, and Flatbush as Stirling and Miles execute risky moves amid heavy casualties and prisoner counts.
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Long Island
New York
America
Staten Island
Gravesend Bay
Thomas Jones
Manhattan
Washington
Brooklyn Heights
East River
Bunker Hill
Guan
Gowanus Creek
Brooklyn
Hudson
Bedford
Flatbush
Jamaica Pass
Sullivan
Guan Heights
Jamaica
Henry Clinton
James Grant
Philip von Heister
Howe
Clinton
Stirling
Samuel Miles
Miles
Grant
Roebuck
Hasset
Delaware
Samuel Atlee
Pennsylvania
Joseph Plumb Martin