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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 180 (part 2)

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[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] On the night of February 2, 1780, " a force of between four and five hundred in-fantry and one hundred horsemen, composed of British, Germans, and Colonel de Lancey's Tories, set out from Fort Knyphausen (for-merly Fort Washington), south of Spuyten Duyvil," to attack him, the whole expedition being commanded by Colonel Nelson, of the Guards. The weather was intensely cold, and deep snow covered

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