The Monthly military repository . impofiiblc to tell what place would befirfl: attacked : this made it neceflliry to ereft worlcs for the defenceof a variety of places as well as of New-York. Though everything was abandoned when the crifis came, that either the citymuft be relinquiHied or the army riiked for its defence, yet fromthe delays occafioned by the redoubts and othei^ works, a wholeCampaign was loft to the Britifli and fared to the Americans. Con-grefs had determined to raife 88 battalions, to ferve during thewar. To wear away the campaign with as little misfortune as poL- |,fiblCi an
The Monthly military repository . impofiiblc to tell what place would befirfl: attacked : this made it neceflliry to ereft worlcs for the defenceof a variety of places as well as of New-York. Though everything was abandoned when the crifis came, that either the citymuft be relinquiHied or the army riiked for its defence, yet fromthe delays occafioned by the redoubts and othei^ works, a wholeCampaign was loft to the Britifli and fared to the Americans. Con-grefs had determined to raife 88 battalions, to ferve during thewar. To wear away the campaign with as little misfortune as poL- |,fiblCi and thereby gain time to ralfe a permanent army againfi: the ^^^next year, was to the Americans a matter of the laft importanceOn the 15th of September, general Howe began to land hismen under cover of five (hips of war, between Kipps-Bay andTurtle-Bay. As the different divifions landed, they pofted them-felves on the high grounds that ftretch in an afcendirg diredionfrom the fca flioie. At the fame time a detachment of Heflian - I. .%/&>A,/j, ^.Jn,^^ MILITARY REPOSITORY. tioops advanced to New-York, and in their way fell in with a par-ty of the Americans retreating by the pafs at Blooming Dale. Afl^irralfli enfued, in which the Heffians uere vidlorious. About thefame time, another detachment of the BritiHi troops made amovement to the right, in order to attack, a body of the Americans,who however retreated to the main body pofted on MorrissHeights. No attempts being made to defend,New-York, it wastaken pofTelTion of by the Englifh. They had been a few days inpofTeffion, when a dreadful fire broke out and confumed a thoufand^oufes. After the Americans had evacuated New-York, they retired tothe north end of the ifland on which the city is erected. On themorning of the i6th of September a detachment was fent outfrom the main body of the Americans, to a wood flicing the leftflank of the enemy. The Britifn in order to diflodge them, dif-patched three companies of light infantry, a
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