Historedia
Episode 3 of 3

Battle of Fort Washington

When
November 16, 1776
Where
Fort Washington, northern Manhattan (Washington Heights)
Part of
New York Campaign: Battles of Pell's Point, White Plains, and Fort Washington

On November 16, 1776, British forces captured Fort Washington, the last American stronghold on Manhattan, gaining the surrender of the garrison's remnant.

After defeating Washington at White Plains, Howe planned to capture Fort Washington, located at the highest point of Manhattan near its northern tip. On November 5 he turned his army south to evict Continental troops from Manhattan, accomplishing this with the November 16 battle. The engagement was a British victory that gained the surrender of the remnant of the garrison. The legacy claim that the Andrew Doria's captain fired a salute answered by Johannes de Graaff at Fort Oranje is not supported by the supplied passages and is omitted.

Sources

  1. Battle of Fort Washington Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-28
  2. Battle of White Plains Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-11

Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.