Campaign dispatches recount Clinton's Monmouth clash
In a sprawling dispatch, General Clinton surveys the June 28 battle at the heights of Monmouth County New Jersey. He details troop movements, baggage losses, and the costly British victory against Washington’s force, noting heavy fatigue heat and the successful retreat to Sandy Hook after the engagement.
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Philadelphia
Coyster Point
Crofswicks
Knyphansen
Amely
Earl Cornwallis
Allen’s Town
Hudson’s River
Staten Island
Thad
Wahingiott
Lee
Delaware
Gates
Raritan
Washington
Sandy Hock
Freehold
Navesink
Knyphausen
Queéri
Ufion
la Fayette
Paice
Gilleb al Kinschiffen
Aivision
Freehold Court House
Freeehald
Queen’s Rangers
33D
Iir Zrenadiers
Nat Swamp
Middletown
Grant
17Th Light Dragoons
Scv
Sandy Hook Island
Sheross
Monckton
2D Battalion of
Grenadiers
Lord Cornwallis
Grey
Mathew
Leslie
William Erskine
Patterson
C. H. Clinton
Henry Clinton
Field
County of Monmouth
New Terseys
Fragmentary naval notice from Grantham Packet situation
Fragmentary OCR suggests a maritime note about the Grantham Packet attempting to sail through the Sound from Rhode Island while the enemy may be engaged off the port. The text reads as a defensive claim that this would not prove discredit to the Majesty's arms.
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Rhode Island
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