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
The New York and New Jersey campaign in 1776 and the winter months of 1777 was a series of American Revolutionary War battles for control of the Port of New York and the state of New Jersey, fought be
Landing at Kip's Bay
…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 shore of Manhattan north of what then constituted New York City. Heavy advance fire…
George Washington, a 1776 portrait by Charles Willson Peale
The Battle of Long Island, 1776, an 1858 portrait by Alonzo Chappel, featuring Lord Stirling in the background leading an attack against the British to enable the retreat of other troops in the foreground across a mill pond to Brooklyn Heights.
A hand-drawn period sketch depicting the locations of British outposts in New Jersey. Orientation is with north to the right.
Emanuel Leutze's 1851 painting Washington Crossing the Delaware is an iconic image of American history.