 Ramba uchinyora ndima iyi - Pamusoro pegomo pakazovakwa Queens Campus ndipo pakaiswa Alexander Hamilton, aitungamirira varume makumi matanhatu veNew York Provincial Company of Artillery, akaisa zvombo zvake kuti afukidze kudzoka kwemauto aGeorge Washington mukupera kwaNovember 1776. Pashure pokukundwa zvine ngwavaira paLong Island, Harlem Heights, uye Fort Washington, Washington yakapa New York City kuvaBritain. Mauto eBritain aitungamirirwa naLieutenant General Lord Cornwallis pasi pemirairo yaLieutenant General William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe vakatevera Washington kusvika kuNew Brunswick, uko iye nemauto ake vakapfuura Rwizi rweRaritan ndokupfuura neNew Brunswick vachienda kumaodzanyemba kuPennsylvania. Yakamiswa pamusoro pegomo pamusoro peRaritan, pfuti yaHamilton yakaderedza kufambira mberi kweBritain uye yakapa Washington nguva yakakwana yokupukunyuka. Mumwe murwi weAmerica, Kaputeni Enoch Anderson, akataura kuti, Kuputika kukuru kwezvombo kwakaitika kumativi ose ari maviri, uye vanoverengeka vakaurawa uye vakakuvadzwa kurutivi rwedu. Mauto eBritain akagara muNew Brunswick kwemwedzi minomwe yakatevera, uye battalion yemauto eHessian yakanga yakadzika musasa panzvimbo yacho. Chiratidzo chenhau chakavakwa sechipo cheKirasi ya1899 chiri pedyo nekereke inoratidza nzvimbo yebhatiri raHamilton. 