The "Neutral Ground" (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Squire Van Cortlandt, Oliver de Lancey, and others, that one of the main objects of the home government, in case of war, would be to separate the more southern from the New England colonies, and New York was the keystone of this position. With her deep harbor, and the broad Hudson stretching far to the northward, it would be easy for Eng land to bring in her invincible fleet, and with it materially aid any army that might invadethe State from loyal Canada so what they feared, and what actually came to pass, was that the locality would be made the theatre of war and devastation.

But let us follow events more in detail. Boston had been evacuated, and the brothers Howe had sailed from Halifax; already ru mors were current that the General had been largely re-enforced, and that My Lord the Ad miral had taken his entire command on board his magnificent and irresistible fleet, and was on his way to capture New York. Washing ton was even now in the city to defend it with the Continental army. On June 28, 1776, the British fleet appeared, and General Howe's troops were landed upon Staten Island without opposition. Washington had entirely too much ground to cover with his meagre force of eighteen thousand men, a large proportion being raw troops, and he found it impossible to defend that comparatively distant point.

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