. Battles of the United States, by sea and land : embracing those of the revolutionary and Indian wars, the war of 1812, and the Mexican war : with important official documents. d Cornwallis was de-tached with a large force to co-opei-atewith General Grant in his movementson the Bay Road,^ and General Clinton,at the head of the main body, movedtowards the Flatbush Road, where Gen-erals Sullivan and de Heister were en-gaged.* Lord Stirlings command embracedthe flower of the American army,—thePennsylvania, Delaware, and Marylandtroops; ^ and he had occupied the slopesof the hills north from Gree
. Battles of the United States, by sea and land : embracing those of the revolutionary and Indian wars, the war of 1812, and the Mexican war : with important official documents. d Cornwallis was de-tached with a large force to co-opei-atewith General Grant in his movementson the Bay Road,^ and General Clinton,at the head of the main body, movedtowards the Flatbush Road, where Gen-erals Sullivan and de Heister were en-gaged.* Lord Stirlings command embracedthe flower of the American army,—thePennsylvania, Delaware, and Marylandtroops; ^ and he had occupied the slopesof the hills north from Greenwood Cem-etery—the Pennsylvania troops on theline of Eighteenth-street, near the Gow-anus Road, the Delaware and Marylandtroops farther eastward, between Eight-eenth and Twentieth streets.^ Here the Liishingtons Lord Harris, p. 76.— Gen. Howes dis-patch, Sept. 3 ; Lvishingtons Lord Harris, p. 76. Gen. Lord Stirling to Gen. Washington, Aug. 29 ;Sparks Washington, p. 178 ; Wards Battle of L. Island. * Sparks Washington, p. 178; Wards Battle of L. Island. Sparks Washington, p. 178.— Cleavelands Green-wood, pp. 83, 88; Lord Stirlings letter, Aug. 29. 1^ ^ Si i:r ^ p. ClIAP. XI.] THE BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND. 147 light troo2:)s of both parties had keptup a skirmish for two hours, when theenemys light troops withdrew, and acannonade ensued—eacli party havingtwo pieces of artillery engaged—untileleven oclock, when General Cornwal-liss approach warned General LordStirling of his danger.^ His plans werespeedily concluded on, and ordering theremainder of his troops to make thebest of their way over the marsh andcreek at Gowanus,—where a mill-dam*afforded some slight assistance to them,•—-he gallantly attacked Lord Cornwal-lis,^ with about one half the Marylandregiment, and prevented that Generalfiom interrupting them in their fact, with so much spirit was this at-tack made, that Lord Cornwallis was onthe point of retiring, when large rein-forcements came up, an
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