History of the United States . tes until August 2,on which date nearly all of the signatures were affixed. Verbal changes inJeffersons draft were made by John Adams and Benjamin Franklin; Congressalso voted to omit portions of the original, such as Jeffersons denunciationof royal protection afforded the slave trade, together with all definite referencesto Parliament, whose official existence and authority were consistently ignoredby the colonies. 120 SECOND PERIOD OF THE REVOLUTION 77. Howes Campaign in the Middle States, 1776.—The British government was not yet wilhng to acknowledge coloniali
History of the United States . tes until August 2,on which date nearly all of the signatures were affixed. Verbal changes inJeffersons draft were made by John Adams and Benjamin Franklin; Congressalso voted to omit portions of the original, such as Jeffersons denunciationof royal protection afforded the slave trade, together with all definite referencesto Parliament, whose official existence and authority were consistently ignoredby the colonies. 120 SECOND PERIOD OF THE REVOLUTION 77. Howes Campaign in the Middle States, 1776.—The British government was not yet wilhng to acknowledge colonialindependence, and the theatre of conflict was transferred to themiddle States, where it was thought that British armies wouldhave a greater measure of success than they had met with in NewEngland and the South. In New York there were a number ofTories who were becom-ing active in oppositionto the patriot of these loyalistsowned large tracts ofland and other were too comforta-bly situated to desire any. THE NEW JERSEY CAMPAIGN change or to risk the chancesof war. In Pennsylvaniaalso there was great oppo-sition to the war, due, inpart, to the Quaker senti-ment in that colony. TheBritish turned their atten-tion to the important har-bor and city of New York, which therefore became the next prizeto be contended for by the opposing forces. Washington sent a large part of his effective fighting strength,under Generals Putnam and Sullivan, to hold Brooklyn HeightsBattle of on Long Island. Against these Howe dispatched aAug27,1776 force of 20,000 men, who turned the American flank,andthe battle w^as won before it was begun. Many of the Americanswere killed and hundreds captured, but the bravery and deter- HOWES CAMPAIGN IN MIDDLE STATES 121 mined resistance of some 400 Maryland troops checked the Britishadvance. This, together with a heavy storm and the British slow-ness of movement, saved this portion of the Continental army,and enabled Washington to rescue th
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