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Jack Dragoni

Veterans News and Views

Jack Dragoni attended Boston College and served in the U.S. Army in Berlin and Vietnam. He resides in Chaffee, Missouri.

Heroes of Long Island

Thursday, July 20, 2017

After the evacuation of the British from Boston, Washington moved his Continental Army southwest to confront the British and Hessian troops in New York. Washington's force occupied New York City and moved to stop the British advance toward the city in Western Long Island. On Aug. 27, 1776, a British position had been set up in and near a stone house in what is now the Park Slope part of Brooklyn where 400 outnumbered Maryland troops of Washington's army repeatedly attacked to stop the British and push them back from that location. Near the high point of Park Slope the British reformed and counterattacked, but the 400 Maryland soldiers continued to fight and slowed the British advance.

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