🔨 The hammer came down at 9 a.m. when the British emerged BEHIND American lines.
📖 Chapter 6, Revolutionary Summer by Joseph J. Ellis
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Washington’s Army Is Nearly Trapped

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George Washington called them the “Old Line.”
We carry that legacy forward.

We are the Old Line Vanguard.
We don’t retreat.

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Took a pre dinner stroll along the NY harbor in Red Hook, Brooklyn and the site of Fort Defiance, one of the many defenses constructed by George Washington in the lead to the Battle of Long Island in August 1776, 250 years ago next month.

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Ahead of the 250th anniversary of the campaign for New York this summer, “Trying Men’s Souls” from Against the Odds has arrived in Brooklyn where I’ll get it played on my table that sits right on the battlefield.

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I don’t usually go to Trader Joe’s but when I do, I go to the Trader Joe’s in downtown Brooklyn near where Washington’s troops built a fortification in defense of New York City in 1776.

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