America Is Still a Covenant Land

"I do declare that I thought all London was afloat." So exclaimed one witness who, in August 1776, stood on the shores of New York harbor awaiting sure destruction. What the witness beheld was the largest naval fleet ever sent from one nation to another nation at that point in history. The British were coming to quash the American rebellion once and for all. They had already begun landing at Long Island, New York, just eastward across the river from New York City—George Washington’s headquarters.

What was America to do? Her cause was all but lost. Certainly General Washington, waiting in relative safety in New York City, would not walk into this British trap. Certainly he would not lead his men—his citizen-soldiers—eastward across the mile-wide East River, to meet the foe. Certainly he would not do this and trap himself on Long Island with this fearsome and lethal enemy. For the British not only outnumbered the Americans 2 to 1, and not only did the British overwhelm them in terms of skill and resources, but the Red Coats were en route to surround Long Island. Land troops rushed westward toward Washington, while state-of-the-art British war ships made their way up the East River.

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