whaaleboght

Updated: June 9, 2025

An extensive camp had been marked out and fortified at the same place. Brooklyn is a village on a small peninsula made by East river, the Bay, and Gowan's Cove. The encampment fronted the main land of the island, and the works stretched quite across the peninsula, from Whaaleboght Bay in the East river on the left, to a deep marsh on a creek emptying into Gowan's Cove, on the right.

John Marshall - The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 : Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War : which Established the Independence of his Country and First : President of the United States