The front of the original Vechte-Cortelyou House ; where the Maryland troops commanded by Lord Stirling and Mordecai Gist made two attacks against over two thousand British troops in a rear-guard action that allowed a majority of Stirling's 1,600-strong command to escape. The house was reconstructed with original materials in 1937 after a fire.
The Delaware Regiment at the Battle of Long Island.
Gunpowder smoke from cannon and muskets mark where Stirling and the Maryland troops attack the British, while in the foreground the rest of the American troops escape across Brouwer's mill pond. Building pictured is the mill.