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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 196 (part 2)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Washington had two immediate objects in view — first, to surprise and, if possible, capture the British position at Kingsbridge; second, to cut off de Lancey's large body of Refugees at Morrisania and any other troops of the enemy north of the Harlem River. The two schemes were to be carried out simultaneously and with great secrecy and rapidity. The Kingsbridge enterprise was to be under the charge of General Lincoln, of the American army, who was to drop down