CHAPTER XXIX. Southern Cruise of Sir Henry Clinton—Fortifications at Charleston—Arrival there of General Lee—Battle at Sullivan’s Island—Washington Announces the result to the Army 272 CHAPTER XXX. Putnam’s Military Projects—Chevaux-de-frise at Fort Washington—Meditated Attack on Staten Island—Arrival of Ships—Hessian Reinforcements—Scotch Highlanders—Sir Henry Clinton and Lord Cornwallis—Putnam’s Obstructions of the Hudson—The Phœnix and Rose Attacked by Row Galleys at Tarrytown—General Order of Washington on the subject of Sectional Jealousies—Profane Swearing prohibited in the Camp—Preparations against Attack—Levies of Yeomanry—George Clinton in Command of the Levies along the Hudson—Alarms of the People of New York—Benevolent Sympathy of Washington—The Phœnix Grappled by a Fire-Ship—The Ships Evacuate the Hudson 279 CHAPTER XXXI. The Battle of Long Island 291 CHAPTER XXXII. The Retreat from Long Island 310 CHAPTER XXXIII. Long Island in Possession of the Enemy—Distressed Situation of the American Army at New York—Question of Abandoning the City—Letters from either Camp—Enemy’s Ships in the Sound—Removal of Women and Children from the City—Yearning for Home among the Militia—Tolerant Ideas of Washington and Greene—Fort Constitution—Conference of Lord Howe with a Committee from Congress 318 CHAPTER XXXIV. Movements of the Enemy—Councils of War—Question of the Abandonment of the City—Distribution of the Army—Ships in the East River—The Enemy at Hell Gate—Skirmish at Turtle Bay—Panic of the Connecticut Militia—Rage and Personal Peril of Washington—Putnam’s Perilous Retreat from the City—British Regale at Murray Hill 328 CHAPTER XXXV. Fortified Camp at King’s Bridge—American and British Lines—The Morris House—Alexander Hamilton—The Enemy Advance—Successful Skirmish—Death of Knowlton—Great Fire in New York—Reorganization of the Army—Exchange of Prisoners—Daniel Morgan Regained—De Lancey’s Tory Brigade—Robert Rogers, the Partisan—His Rangers—The Roebuck, Phœnix, and Tartar in the Hudson—Military Movements by Land and Water—Letter of John Jay 337