# The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn: Including a new and circumstantial account of the battle of Long isla

> A detailed history of the pivotal 1776 campaign around New York and Brooklyn in the American Revolution, including a full account of the Battle of Long Island: strategy, terrain, and a young army's baptism of fire.

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## About
The summer of 1776 tested the infant American cause almost to breaking, and this study returns to the ground where it was fought, tracing the campaign around New York with close attention to detail.What it's aboutThe book chronicles the military campaign of 1776 in and around New York and Brooklyn during the American Revolution, with a new and circumstantial account of the Battle of Long Island at its centre. It examines the positions and movements of the opposing armies, the decisions of the commanders, the terrain over which they fought, and the course of an engagement that nearly destroyed the Continental army in its first great trial. Careful and documentary, it aims to reconstruct events with precision.ThemesStrategy, misfortune, and narrow escape drive the narrative, along with the fragility of the American war effort in its opening stages. The book weighs the choices that shaped the campaign and the consequences of victory and defeat, restoring to a famous struggle the texture of its actual ground and hours.Why it still mattersThe New York campaign was among the most consequential of the Revolution, and this remains a valued, source-based reconstruction of it. For students of the war and of early American history, it offers the kind of circumstantial detail that turns a familiar outline into a living event.Who it's forFor readers of American Revolutionary history, students of military campaigns, and anyone who wants a close, evidence-grounded account of 1776 around New York and the Battle of Long Island.

## Specifications
- language: en
- format: paperback