Covers 602 battles, raids and skirmishes of the Revolutionary War with maps, photos and action locations.
- Many actions not covered anywhere else.
- URLs for websites of various parks and tourist organizations.
- Glossary, extensive notes and index.
- Comprehensive coverage of the confrontations.
The Guide to the American Revolutionary War in New York
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1. Upstate New York....................................................................................3
Ticonderoga/Fort Ticonderoga 5;
Below Ticonderoga/Sabbath Day Point 13;
Mount Independence 13;
Fort Ticonderoga and Fort Independence 15;
Crown Point 15;
Wind Mill Point 17;
Isle La Motte, Lake Champlain 17;
Valcour Island 17;
Split Rock 20;
Utica/Fort Stanwix/Schuyler/Moses Kill 21;
Whitehall 24;
Fort Anne/Fort Edward 26;
Fort Edward 27;
Schuylerville/Stillwater/Saratoga/Bemis Heights 30;
Oriskany 35;
Schenectady 36;
Vrooman’s 37;
Cambridge/Sancoick’s (or Van Schaick’s) Mill 38;
North Hoosick/Battle of Bennington 39;
Lake George/Fort George, Lake George/Near Lake George 41;
Diamond Island 42;
Kingston/Esopus 43;
Kingston/Slapshine Island, Hudson River 44;
Upstate New York 44;
Tribes Hill (Sackintago) 44;
Manheim 45;
Ephrata 45;
Cobleskill 45;
Otsego County/Near Cherry Valley 47;
Springfield (July 18, 1778) 47;
Cherry Valley (Nov. 11, 1778) 47;
Herkimer/German Flats 48;
Shell’s Bush/Andrustown (Andrew’s Town)/Near head of Unadilla River/Little Falls (Ellis’s (Ellice’s) mill) 48;
Schoharie/Gallupville 51;
Cochecton, Sullivan Co. 54;
Johnstown/Warrensbush 54;
Onondagas 57;
Ogdensburg/Oswegatchie 57;
Port Jervis/Minisink 59;
Elmira/Chemung/Battle of Newtown 60;
Havana/Catherine’s Town/Appletown/Kindaia 62;
Geneva/Cayuga Lake, raid/Canandaigua/Kanadesaga 63;
Geneseo 63;
Fort Plain/Canajoharie (Fort Rensselaer)/Mohawk Valley 64;
Harpersfield/Sacandaga Blockhouse 65;
Fonda/Caughnawaga 66;
Near Delaware River 66;
Greenville/Basic Creek 67;
Currytown 67;
New Dorlach/Sharon Springs Swamp 67;
Wawarsing 68;
Middleburg/Fort Defiance or Middle Fort 69;
Ballston/Fort Plank 70;
Stone Arabia/Fort Keyser 71;
Saint Johnsville/Fort Klock, Klock’s Field (Fox’s Mills)/Kanassoraga 72;
Jerseyfield/West Canada Creek 73
2. Downstate/Hudson River Valley.......................................................74
Hudson River 74;
Hudson River off Tarrytown 76;
Haverstraw/Near Fishkill/Hopewell 79;
Fort Montgomery and Fort Clinton/Fort Montgomery 80;
White Plains 82;
Highlands/Ossining/Singsing 87;
Nyack/Tappan Meadows 87;
New Hempstead/Kakiat 87;
Phillipsburg and Greenburg/Near Dobbs Ferry/Phillipsburg/
Teller’s Point, Hudson River/Phillips Heights/Tappan 88;
Pelham Manor/Pell’s Point/New Rochelle 92;
Eastchester (East Chester)/Near East Chester/Split Rock/Ward’s House/Westchester County/Eastchester Bay 94;
Peekskill/Cortlandt, Westchester County/Van Cortlandtville/Peekskill 100;
Verplanck’s Point 103;
Tarrytown 104;
Near Poughkeepsie/Hudson River Highlands 105;
New Windsor 106;
Storm King/Butter Hill 106;
Port Chester/Sawpits/Byram River/Sherrard’s Bridge 106;
Mamaroneck, Westchester County/Pine Hills 107;
Rye, King Street/Rye Woods/Rye Neck 109;
Stony Point and Verplanck’s Point 110;
Croton/Near Croton 112;
West Point 113;
Mount Pleasant/Youngs’s House/Four Corners, Westchester Co. 118;
Crompond 120;
Poundridge 121;
Bedford 122;
Morrisania/New Rochelle/Eastchester 123;
Croton River/Pines Bridge 126;
Mount Kisco/North Castle/Sawmill River 127;
Armonk/Mile Square 129;
Harrison, Westchester Co. 129;
Suffern 130
3. Eastern Long Island...........................................................................131
Plum Island, Fisher’s Island, Gardiner’s Island/Fisher’s Island 131;
Setauket 131;
Near Brookhaven 135;
Huntington Bay 135;
Huntington 137;
Off Wading River137;
Oyster Bay 138;
South Oyster Bay/Jefferd’s Neck 139;
Sag Harbor 139;
Smith’s Point/Coram/Fort St. George 140;
Hempstead Harbor 143;
Terry Point 143;
Southold 143;
Smithtown 144;
Lloyd’s Neck 145;
South Bay 148;
Long Island Sound 148;
Oak Neck 148;
Fire Island 149;
Fort Salonga/Fort Slongo/Treadwell’s Neck (Threadwell’s)/Tredwell’s or Treadwell’s Farm 149;
Cow Neck 151;
Cow Bay 153;
Hog Neck 154;
Eastern end of Long Island 154;
Islip 154;
Hog Island 154;
Mosquito Cove 155;
Canoe-Place 155;
Long Island 155;
Gull Islands 155;
Blue Point 156;
Hempstead 156;
Great Neck 156;
Stony Brook 157;
Mattituck 157
4. Western Long Island......................................................................158
Gravesend Bay 158;
New York Harbor/Coney Island/Off Coney Island 158;
Flatbush158;
Battle of Long Island (aka Battle of Brooklyn Heights)/Valley Grove/
Bushwick/Brooklyn Heights/Long Island/Jamaica 160;
Throg’s Neck/City Island 168;
Governor’s or Nutten Island/East River 169;
Whitestone Bay/Whitestone 171;
Gowanus 172;
Canarsie 172
5. Manhattan and Staten Island.......................................................173
New York 174;
Bedloe’s (Bedlow’s) Island 176;
Roosevelt Island/Blackwell’s Island 176;
Hunt’s Point 177;
Wards Island/Buchanan’s Island/Montresor’s (Randall’s) Island 177;
Horn’s (Hoorn’s) Hook 178;
Kip’s Bay 179;
Manhattanville/Harlem Cove/Harlem Plains/Harlem Heights 180;
Kingsbridge or King’s Bridge/Fort Independence/West Farms/Valentine’s Hill, Mount Vernon/Indian Field and Bridge/Mile Square Road, Westchester Co./Near Mount Vernon 183;
Bronx/Westchester/Delancey’s Mills 192;
Mount Washington (Washington Heights)/Fort Washington 193;
Fort George 196;
Fort Cock Hill (Cock’s or Cox Hill or New Battery) 196;
Spuyten Duyvil Creek 196;
Williams’s Bridge 196;
Staten Island 198