. The battle of Pell's Point (or Pelham) October 18, 1776. Being the story of a stubborn fight. With a map, and illustrations from original photographs and family portraits. d, the British commander embarkedthe rest of his army for Throggs Neck, about thirteen milesup Long Island Sound, probably hoping to get in the rear ofthe patriots, force them to retreat on Harlem, and thus placethem between two fires. On October twelfth he landed onthe Neck, but his attempt to cross by the causeway—still ex-isting—to the west shore of West Chester Creek was foiled bythe troops under Hand and Prescott, and
. The battle of Pell's Point (or Pelham) October 18, 1776. Being the story of a stubborn fight. With a map, and illustrations from original photographs and family portraits. d, the British commander embarkedthe rest of his army for Throggs Neck, about thirteen milesup Long Island Sound, probably hoping to get in the rear ofthe patriots, force them to retreat on Harlem, and thus placethem between two fires. On October twelfth he landed onthe Neck, but his attempt to cross by the causeway—still ex-isting—to the west shore of West Chester Creek was foiled bythe troops under Hand and Prescott, and he remained idle forsix days. On the eighteenth, at one oclock in the morning, he againembarked,1 and crossed to Pells Point, in the town of Pelham, 1 The force embarked was not the whole army—Knyphausen, with most ofthe Hessians followed a few days after. It was made up of the Light and Grenadier companies of the British regiments,and part if not all the German Chasseurs, several Hessian regiments, the Sixteenthand Seventeenth Light Dragoons, the field-guns of the Germans, and some gunsof the Royal Artillery—taken from either the E, I, 6th or gth GLOVERS ROCK.(Where the conflict began.) 5 a few miles north. Here, at dawn, began the landing of thetroops, and the conflict with which we are concerned soonfollowed. John Glover, commanding the Massachusetts regimentknown by his name, and also as the fishermens or theamphibious regiment, which played so important a part inthe retreat from Long Island, was then at the head of a brigadeof four skeleton regiments, all of Massachusetts. They were his own, the 14th; Joseph Reads, the 13th;Shepards (late Learneds), the 3d; and Loammi Baldwins,the 26th. The whole comprised only seven hundred and fifty I have not been able to find a complete list of the British regiments, but it iscertain the Fourth and Sixteenth Foot (or their companies as mentioned above)were there. The estimates made by American writers vary very wid
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