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Title: The Great north side, or, Borough of the Bronx, New York
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC North Side Board of Trade (Bronx, New York, N.Y.)
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Publisher: New York : Knickerbocker Press
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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possession ofsome islands ; the continent was still held by the rebelliousAmericans. The British had no base of supplies but theocean, and as the Americans retreated the crops were burned,the cattle purchased from the farmers, and the roads andbridges leading either across or up into the country wererendered useless for artillery and baggage-trains by felling thetrees across them. The immediate command of the rear guardwas assigned to General Heath. He placed it with posts andpickets along the east banks ft Spuvten Duyvil, the HarlemRiver and Kills, the indentations of Leggetts Creek, BronxRiver, and Westchester Creek, and left no available route forlandward advance open to Howe except over broken bridges,highways slashed with timber and up to lines of stone wallswith minute-men behind them. A second line of advanceopen to How7e was up the Hudson in ships of war still ob-structed by the American forts Washington and Lee: as athird method of attack the Sound in ships, a landing on the
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12 The Great North Side. continent and an advance in the front and not on tin* Hank ofthe retreating Americans. Heath with his men held the Har-lem River gorge so well that no available landing occurred to the Howe brothers until the fleet and transports had reachedHammonds anchorage just west of the promontory whereonFort Schuyler now stands. After landing his troops and trains, and marching up theThroggs Nect road, Howe found tin- <»M Westchester bridgeacross the creek impassable, ami American riflemen behindcord-wood breast-works barring hid advance: farther up the creek he crossed, or tried to cross, BO as to get on to the Kast-chester Road near where the Pelhara Parkway now crosses it.but there the regiments of Westchester in which were ourcompanies from Fordham, W est Farms, and Westchester vil-lage, successfully resisted his advance and the British veteransreturned to Throws Neck and were forced to he ferried acrossPel ham Bay to Pells Point and then in what is now PelhamBa

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