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On this day in history, August 22, 1776, in a spectacular display of global power projection and military logistics, the British army and navy invaded Brooklyn by sea and George Wilkinson in New York City. defeated Washington's army.
``Naval spectacle with more than 90 ships filling the Narrows [in New York Harbor]''The late historian David McCulloughwrote in his book ``1776''. I am writing in A seminal work in one of the most formative years in the country's history.
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Coats and polished bayonets glisten in the bright sunshine," McCullough wrote of his landing at Gravesend Bay, in what is now the southeast corner of Brooklyn, just south of the present-day Verrazano Narrows Bridge.
Battle of Long Island — Gowanus The Americans under General Stirling Crossing the Creek (1877). This battle (also known as the Battle of Brooklyn Heights) took place on August 27, 1776, and was the first major battle of the American Revolutionary War after America declared its independence on July 4, 1776. became. 1858, by Alonzo Chappell. From Our Country: a Household History for All Readers, from the Discovery of America to the Present Time, Vol. 2, Benson J. Lossing (Johnson and Miles, New York, 1877). (Artist unknown. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images))
The artillery landed and quickly landed in perfect formation on the adjacent plain. and assembled smoothly.
Just five days after his August 27 Battle of Brooklyn Heights (also known as the Battle of Longhis Island), the British forced George Washington's forces into pulverized.
The general then miraculously evacuated the rest of his force across the East River to Manhattan on August 29, in darkness and fog. 49}
at Boston College Commencement at Alumni Stadium , David McCullough addressing the alumni. (Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images)
Americans also he was forced to flee Manhattan in November, Controlled England for the entire duration of the war away from the city.
Colonial forces were repeatedly overwhelmed in his 1776, and the end of the failed American Revolutionary War seemed imminent.
But the British soldiers, agents of the world's most powerful empire, were stunned by the wealth of the rebellious American people, their fields and farmers.
General George Washington's Illustration Army crossing the East River from Brooklyn to Manhattan after being defeated by the British at the Battle of Long Island on August 29, 1776. From Wageman's painting he is sculpted by JC Army. (Interim Archives/Getty Images)
Redcoat "took pride in the fine apples that hung in abundance everywhere in the trees," he said. writes McCullough.
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"Almost everywhere there were chests of drawers, chairs, mirrors in gilded frames, porcelain, and all manner of the finest and most expensive manufactured goods."
He also wrote that "the British and Hessian armies were astonished that the Americans were so well off".
"The lightning bolts fell all at once to the earth in layers of fire, and seemed to fall incessantly in all directions."
In 1776 It is reverently remembered by patriotic Americans today.
But the invasion of Brooklyn marked the beginning of the darkest month of the American Revolution. McCullough wrote that the invasion was heralded by "the most terrible storm in living memory."
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Attacking in every direction … houses burst into flames, instantly killing ten soldiers encamped by the East River.
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Kelly J. Byrne is his reporter for Fox News Digital.
