Maintaining Normalcy in British-Occupied Brookhaven, Eastern Long Island, New York
In August 1776, the Crown’s disciplined forces easily displaced the unprepared Continental resistance in the Battle of Long Island, also known as the Battle…
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Patriots Against Loyalists on Eastern Long Island, 1775–1776
In 1775, within weeks of the violent clashes at Lexington and Concord, Patriots throughout the colonies established Committees of Observation to thwart Loyalists from…