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twenty-eighth; and on the fourth of November, General Howe 

 withdrew from the front of the Americans, his Westchester 

 campaign a complete failure. 



Upon the withdrawal of the American troops from their 

 positions at Fordham and Kingsbridge, the barracks and store- 

 houses were destroyed and the redoubts dismantled, the guns 

 being rendered useless or being taken with the retiring army. 

 Trees were felled across the roads both on Manhattan and in 

 the Borough to render them as impassable to the enemy as 

 possible; and both bridges, the King's and the Farmers', were 

 dismantled. The troops who remained were gathered within 

 the defences of Fort Washington, while Nathanael Greene, 

 with a small force, occupied Fort Lee on the New Jersey shore, 

 in general command of both forts. 



When Howe left New Rochelle on the twenty-second for 

 his advance against White Plains, he left the newly arrived 

 Germans behind him. On the twenty-eighth, Knyphausen 

 took up his march to Kingsbridge, via the old Boston Road 

 over the Bronx River at Williamsbridge. Upon arriving at 

 Kingsbridge, he repaired the bridges and took possession of 

 the abandoned works of the Americans. Here he was joined 

 by the other divisions of the army after their withdrawal from 

 White Plains, some by way of Dobbs Ferry and Yonkers, 

 others by way of New Rochelle; and preparations were made 

 for the reduction of Fort Washington. Lord Cornwallis, with 

 his troops on a flotilla of boats, came up the river from Harlem 

 and passed through Spuyten Duyvil Creek to the Hudson for 

 an attack upon the fort from the river side. Two redoubts, 

 Seven and Eight, were thrown up on Fordham Heights, just 

 north of Burnside Avenue, and on the sixteenth of November 

 they began to fire on the American outworks, to cover the attack 

 by the Germans. Later in the day, the fort was carried by 



