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Lord Stirling at the Battle of Long Island, Virtue, Emmins & Co. 1859
S}rling and his pugnacious rearguard repeatedly
charged the oncoming Bri}sh and held them oû
long enough for the beleaguered Americans to
reach the safety of Brooklyn Heights
cian with land and influence in New York and New Jersey. By the
time the child was five, William or
