The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn: Including a new and circumstantial account of the battle of Long island and the loss of New York, with a review of events to the close of the year

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2. Plan of the Battle of Long Island and the Brooklyn Defences. 5. Map of New York City and of Manhattan Island, with the American Defences. "Our affairs are hastening fast to a crisis; and the approaching campaign will, in all probability, determine forever the fate of America." So wrote John Hancock, President of Congress, June 4th, 1776, to the governors and conventions of the Eastern and Middle colonies, as, in the name of that body, he reminded them of the gravity of the struggle on which they had entered, and urged the necessity of increasing their exertions for the common defence.