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  • Battle of Long Island
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Strength
  • 10000(xsd:integer)
  • 32000(xsd:integer)
campaignbox
  • Northern 1775
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Partof
  • the American Revolutionary War
Date
  • 1776-08-27(xsd:date)
Commander
  • George Washington
  • Charles Mawhood
  • John Sullivan
  • Henry Clinton
  • Henry Knox
  • William Alexander
  • Thomas Mifflin
  • James Grant
  • Israel Putnam
  • William Erskine
  • Charles Cornwallis,
  • William Howe,
Align
  • right
Caption
  • 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.
Width
  • 220(xsd:integer)
  • 240(xsd:integer)
direction
  • horizontal
Casualties
  • 31(xsd:integer)
  • 64(xsd:integer)
  • 293(xsd:integer)
  • 300(xsd:integer)
  • 1000(xsd:integer)
  • ~700 wounded
Result
  • British victory
Image
  • Battleoflongisland.jpg
  • Vechte-Cortelyou House-Brooklyn.jpg
combatant
  • * Hesse-Kassel
Place
  • Kings County, Long Island, New York
Conflict
  • Battle of Long Island
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