Battle of Long Island
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The Battle of Long Island, also known as the Battle of Brooklyn and the Battle of Brooklyn Heights, was an action of the American Revolutionary War fought on August 27, 1776, at and near the western e
2004 painting of the battle
General William Howe
General George Washington
The British fleet in the lower bay, published in Harper's Magazine in 1876, depicts a Royal Navy fleet amassing off Staten Island in the summer of 1776
Landing at Kip's Bay
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The landing at Kip's Bay was a British amphibious landing carried out on September 15, 1776 during the New York and New Jersey campaign of the American Revolutionary War. It occurred on the East River
The British landing at Kip's Bay, New York Island, 15 September 1776 Robert Cleveley, 1777
Portrait of Sir Henry Clinton made a year after the landing
Statue of George Washington in Brooklyn
General Israel Putnam