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the very
great importance attached to the struggle that was to come, it may not
appear disproportionate. The narrative also is continued so as to include
the closing incidents of the year, without which it would hardly be
complete, although they take us beyond the limits of New York.

But for the cheerful and in many cases painstaking co-operation of
those who are in possession of the documents referred to, or who have
otherwise rendered assistance, the preparation of the work could not
have been possible. The writer finds himself especially under
obligations to Miss Harriet E. Henshaw, of Leicester, Mass.; Miss
Mary Little and Benjamin Hale, Esq., Newburyport; Charles J. Little,
Esq., Cambridge; Mr. Francis S. Drake, Roxbury; Rev. Dr. I.N. Tarbox
and John J. Soren, Boston; Prof. George Washington Greene, East
Greenwich, R.I.; Hon. J.M. Addeman, Secretary of State of Rhode
Island, and Rev. Dr. Stone, Providence; Hon. Dwight Morris, Secretary
of State of Connecticut; Dr. P.W. Ellsworth and Captain John C.
Kinney, Hartford; Miss Mary L. Huntington, Norwich; Benjamin
Douglas, Esq., Middletown; Mr. Henry M. Selden, Haddam Neck; Hon.
G.H. Hollister, Bridgeport; Hon. Teunis G. Bergen, Mr. Henry E.
Pierrepont, J. Carson Brevoort, Esq., Rev. Dr. H.M. Scudder, and Mr.
Gerrit H. Van Wagenen, Brooklyn; Mr. Henry Onderdonk, Jr., Jamaica,
L.I.; Frederick H. Wolcott, Esq., Astoria, L.I.; Hon. John Jay, Charles I.
Bushnell, Esq., Miss Troup, Mrs. Kernochan, Prof. and Mrs. O.P.
Hubbard, Gen. Alex. S. Webb, Rev. A.A. Reinke, New York City; Mr.
William Kelby, New York Historical Society; Prof. Asa Bird Gardner,
West Point; Hon. W.S. Stryker, Adjutant-General, Trenton, N.J.;
Richard Randolph Parry, Esq., Hon. Lewis A. Scott, and Mr. J. Jordan,
Philadelphia; Hon. John B. Linn, Harrisburg; Mrs. S.B. Rogers and Mr.
D.M. Stauffler, Lancaster; Dr. Dalrymple, Maryland Historical Society,
Baltimore; Hon. Cæsar A. Rodney, J.R. Walter, and W.S. Boyd,
Wilmington, Del.; Oswald Tilghman, Esq., Easton, Md.; Hon. Edward
McPherson, Rev. Dr. John Chester, and Lieutenant-Colonel T. Lincoln
Casey, Washington; President Andrews and Mr. Holden, Librarian,
Marietta College; and Mr. Henry E. Parsons and Edward Welles,
Ashtabula, Ohio.
The cordial and constant encouragement extended by the Rev. Dr.
Richard S. Storrs, President of the Long Island Historical Society, and
the interest taken in the work by Hon. Henry C. Murphy, Benjamin D.
Silliman, Esq., and the Librarian, Mr. George Hannah, are gratefully
acknowledged.

NEW YORK CITY, June, 1878.

CONTENTS.

PART I.
PAGE
CHAPTER I.
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CAMPAIGN--PLANS AND
PREPARATIONS 13
CHAPTER II.
FORTIFYING NEW YORK AND BROOKLYN 35
CHAPTER III.
THE TWO ARMIES 105
CHAPTER IV.
THE BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND 139
CHAPTER V.
RETREAT TO NEW YORK 207
CHAPTER VI.
LOSS OF NEW YORK--KIP'S BAY AFFAIR--BATTLE OF
HARLEM HEIGHTS 225

CHAPTER VII.
WHITE PLAINS--FORT WASHINGTON 263
CHAPTER VIII.
TRENTON--PRINCETON--CLOSE OF THE CAMPAIGN 287

PART II.
LIST OF DOCUMENTS:
No. 1. General Greene's Orders--Camp on Long Island 5
" 2. General Sullivan's Orders--Camp on Long Island 27
" 3. General Orders 30
" 4. Washington to the Massachusetts Assembly 32
" 5. General Parsons to John Adams 33
" 6. General Scott to John Jay 36
" 7. Colonel Joseph Trumbull to his Brother 40
" 8. Colonel Trumbull to his Father 41
" 9. Colonel Moses Little to his Son 42
" 10. Lieutenant-Colonel Henshaw to his Wife 44
" 11. Deposition by Lieutenant-Colonel Henshaw 47
" 12. Colonel Edward Hand to his Wife 48

" 13. Major Edward Burd to Judge Yeates 48
" 14. Lieutenant Jasper Ewing to Judge Yeates 49
" 15. John Ewing to Judge Yeates 50
" 16. Colonel Haslet to Cæsar Rodney 51
" 17. Colonel G.S. Silliman to his Wife 52
" 18. Colonel Silliman to Rev. Mr. Fish 57
" 19. Account of the Battle of Long Island 58
" 20. Journal of Colonel Samuel Miles 60
" 21. Lieutenant-Colonel John Brodhead to ---- 63
" 22. Colonel William Douglas to his Wife 66
" 23. General Woodhull to the New York Convention 73
" 24. General Washington to Abraham Yates 74
" 25. Colonel Hitchcock to Colonel Little 75
" 26. Major Tallmadge's Account of the Battles of Long Island and
White Plains 77
" 27. Account of Events by Private Martin 81
" 28. Captain Joshua Huntington to ---- 84
" 29. Captain Tench Tilghman to his Father 85
" 30. Captain John Gooch to Thomas Fayerweather 88
" 31. Account of the Retreat from New York and Affair of Harlem
Heights, by Colonel David Humphreys 89

" 32. Testimony Respecting the Retreat from New York 92
" 33. Major Baurmeister's Narrative 95
" 34. Colonel Chester to Joseph Webb 98
" 35. Colonel Glover to his Mother 99
" 36. General Greene to Colonel Knox 100
" 37. Diary of Rev. Mr. Shewkirk, Moravian Pastor, New York 101
" 38. Major Fish to