United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present . five hundredbuildings. On the 16th of October, while the Americans were still intheir entrenchments above the city, Howe embarked his forces, passedinto Long Island Sound and landed in the vicinity of Westchester. Theobject was to get upon the American left flank and cut off communica-tions with the Eastern States. Washington, ever on the alert, detectedthe movement, put his army in motion and faced the British east of Har-lem River. For some day
United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present . five hundredbuildings. On the 16th of October, while the Americans were still intheir entrenchments above the city, Howe embarked his forces, passedinto Long Island Sound and landed in the vicinity of Westchester. Theobject was to get upon the American left flank and cut off communica-tions with the Eastern States. Washington, ever on the alert, detectedthe movement, put his army in motion and faced the British east of Har-lem River. For some days the two generals manoeuvred, and on the28th a battle was brought on at White Plains. Howe began the engage-ment with a furious cannonade, which was answered with spirit. TheAmericans were driven from one important position, but immediately re-entrenched themselves in another. Night came on; Howe waited forreinforcements, and Washington withdrew to the heights of North remained for a few days at White Plains, and then returned toNew York. Washington, apprehending that the British would now proceed 314 HISTORY OF THE UNITED SCENE Or OPERATIONS ABOUTNEW YORK, 1776. against Philadelphia, crossed to the west bank of the Hudson and tookpost with General Greene at Fort Lee. Four thousand men were left at North Castle under command of General Washington, on Manhattan Island, fivemiles north of the city, was defended by threethousand men under Colonel Magaw. Thisfort was a place of great natural and artificialstrength. The skill of its construction hadattracted the attention of Washington and ledto an acquaintance with the engineer, whofrom that time forth, through the stormy vi-cissitudes of nearly a quarter of a century, en-joyed the unclouded confidence of his chief;the engineer was Alexander Hamilton,then a stripling of but twenty years of the 16th of November the Britishattacked Fort Washington in overwhelmingforce. The garrison made a stubbor
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