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Jan 25, 2024 · The Battle of Long Island was the largest battle of the American Revolution, fought on 27 August 1776 near Brooklyn between George Washington's Continental Army and Sir William Howe's British force. It resulted in an American defeat and led to the British capture of New York City.
The Battle of Long Island, known since the late twentieth century as the Battle of Brooklyn, was the largest engagement of the American Revolution, in which nearly twenty thousand British troops, including Scottish and Hessian auxiliaries, supported by an armada of thirty warships, took to the field against nine thousand Americans.
Richard Howe’s landlubber brother General William Howe commanded the English regulars and German mercenaries poised to capture this mercantile and maritime hub that John Adams called a “key to the whole continent.”
William the Conqueror (c. 1028 – 9 September 1087), sometimes called William the Bastard, was the first Norman king of England (as William I), reigning from 1066 until his death. A descendant of Rollo, he was Duke of Normandy (as William II) from 1035 onward.
John Sullivan was a Major General who commanded what was known as the American Left in Brooklyn, and the Right Sector ( Western Brooklyn) was given to a New Jersian, William Alexander. Sullivan and Putman feuded as to their respective responsibilities.
Sep 25, 2017 · He took it for granted that the king’s men had trapped George Washington’s army on Brooklyn Heights, where the Americans would surrender in a day or two. General William Howe, the admiral’s brother, was so confident of victory that he was not requesting any additional support from the navy.
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On the morning of August 27th, 1776, the British were advancing toward the main American camp on Brooklyn Heights. Realizing the dire American position, the American General, William Alexander, Lord Stirling, led a regiment of 400 Maryland soldiers against 2,000 British forces commanded by General Charles Cornwallis at the Old Stone House.
