Battle of Harlem Heights, September 16, 1776; with a review of the events of the campaign. . ys: Our army, at leastone Division of it, lay at Col. Morriss and sosouthward to near the Hollow Way which runsacross from Harlem Flat to the North Riverat Matje Davits Fly. About halfway betweenwhich two places our lines run across the River[Island] which indeed at that time were onlybegun, but are now in a very defensible , with other references,^ locates the first line atOne Hundred and Forty-seventh Street, which isalmost precisely halfway between the pointsnamed. The second line, with fo
Battle of Harlem Heights, September 16, 1776; with a review of the events of the campaign. . ys: Our army, at leastone Division of it, lay at Col. Morriss and sosouthward to near the Hollow Way which runsacross from Harlem Flat to the North Riverat Matje Davits Fly. About halfway betweenwhich two places our lines run across the River[Island] which indeed at that time were onlybegun, but are now in a very defensible , with other references,^ locates the first line atOne Hundred and Forty-seventh Street, which isalmost precisely halfway between the pointsnamed. The second line, with four redoubts, ranalong One Hundred and Fifty-third to One Hun-dred and Fifty-fifth Street; while a third, withoutredoubts, was begun but not completed at One Hun-dred and Sixty-first Street. The position was thusfirmly secured. Below the lines, overlooking theHollow Way, Greenes division was posted as astrong advance corps to guard against surprise anddispute the intervening ground with the enemyshould they attempt to advance upon the works. 1 See Chapter, Previous Versions of the BRITISH HEADQUARTERS 51 The larger map also shows the position of the enemymore in detail.^ Howe established his headquartersat the Beekman mansion then standing on the lineof what is now Fifty-first Street, near First was central to his command — the main bodybeing above him, the city below, and a brigade onLong Island. His headquarters have sometimesbeen placed at Apthorpes house at the front, uponthe information of a British deserter who told Wash-ington that he believed he w^as there. The bestauthority, however, is the writer of the letter (), who states that General Howes headquartersare at Lieutenant-Colonel James Beekmans house onthe East River near Turtle Bay. ^ Apthorpes wasprobably occupied by Sir Henry Clinton, who had ^ Map showing the Position of the Two Armies nearHarlem, from September 16th to October 12th, 1776.—Tlie topography of this map has been compiled
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