Excerpt from Fort Washington, November 16th, 1776: A Memorial From the Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution to the Honorable Mayor and Municipal Assembly of the City of New York, Praying for the Erection of a Suitable Monument to Mark the Site of Fort Washington<br><br>Good authorities difi'er as to the exact numbers engaged and the losses sustained on either side. The foregoing statements are based on John Fiske's The American Revolution.ih-arms which he was powerless. To avert. On that date, the last vestige of American authority disappeared from the Island of Manhattan until the evacua tion of the Island by the British seven years and nine days later, after American Independence had been won. The loss of Fort Washington was a crushing blow to the American cause.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.