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Washington's Retreat at Long Island. August 1776. Copy of engraving by J. C. Armytage after Wageman, published circa 1860. (The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library Digital Collections) Joseph Reed, General George Washington's aide-de-camp, recalled these anguished remarks by Washington as the general watched the Continental Army retreat from Gowanus Heights in Brooklyn on August 27, 1776. The fight

The Battle of Bunker Hill, on June 17, 1775 was the latest in a string of miscalculations made by the British government, ultimately leading to the American Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.